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Brachymelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)

Melecta californica Cresson, 1878:91, ♂♀. 10 ♂♀, California (leg. H. Edwards, Behrens); Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:15, Lectotype ♂ (ANSP, 2292). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (distribution); Linsley, 1943Linsley, E. G. 1943. The genus Melecta in eastern North America and Porto Rico (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 51 (3):225-227. (distribution). - As Brachymelecta californica: - Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51. (distribution). - As Melecta californica californica: - Michener, 1948Michener, C.D. 1948. Notes on the American bees of the genus Melecta (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 50 (1):15-18. (distribution). - As Xeromelecta californica: - Hurd, 1953Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1953. Notes on the Melectine Bees of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 26 (1):35-37. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Rozen, 2000Rozen, J.G., Jr. 2000. Pupal descriptions of some cleptoparasitic bees (Apidae), with a preliminary generic key to pupae of cleptoparasitic bees (Apoidea). American Museum Novitates 3289:1-19. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).
Melecta mucida Cresson, 1879:205, Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:15, Holotype ♀ (ANSP, 10129). Synonymized with Brachymelecta californica (Cresson, 1878) by Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:13.
Melecta miranda Fox, 1893:143 - Cockerell, 1901Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - X. Observations on bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains. II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7 (7):125-131. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:494 ( listed as synonym of Xeromelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2172 ( listed as synonym of Xeromelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)); Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:13 ( listed as synonym of Brachymelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)).
Pseudomelecta pasadenensis Cockerell, 1910:27, Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:15, Holotype ♀ (CAS, 15525). - Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:494 ( listed as synonym of Xeromelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2172 ( listed as synonym of Xeromelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)); Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:13 ( listed as synonym of Brachymelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)).
Melecta sladeni Viereck, 1924:15, Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:15, Holotype ♀ (CNC, 652). - Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:494 ( listed as synonym of Xeromelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2172 ( listed as synonym of Xeromelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)); Onuferko et al., 2021Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.:13 ( listed as synonym of Brachymelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)).

Common names

  •  California digger-cuckoo bee

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Area distribution map

map of Brachymelecta californica (Cresson, 1878)

Distribution

CAN-AlbCanada - Alberta
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
CAN-BrCCanada - British Columbia
 (Hurd, 1953; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979; Onuferko et al., 2021 [as Melecta sladeni Viereck, 1924]; Onuferko et al., 2021)
MEXMexico
 (Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-BaCMexico - Baja California
 (Hurd, 1953)
MEX-BCSMexico - Baja California Sur
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
MEX-DiFMexico - Distrito Federal (Mexico City)
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
MEX-DurMexico - Durango
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-MéxMexico - México
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-PueMexico - Puebla
 (Hurd, 1953)
MEX-SinMexico - Sinaloa
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
MEX-SonMexico - Sonora
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
MEX-ZacMexico - Zacatecas
 (Michener, 1948; Hurd, 1953)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
USA-CAUnited States - California
 (Cresson, 1878; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1903; Krombein et al., 1979; Onuferko et al., 2021; Onuferko et al., 2021; Onuferko et al., 2021 [as Pseudomelecta pasadenensis Cockerell, 1910])
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-MOUnited States - Missouri
 (Linsley, 1943; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-NEUnited States - Nebraska
 (Rozen, 2000)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Cockerell, 1901 [as Melecta miranda Fox, 1893]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melecta miranda Fox, 1893]; Onuferko et al., 2021)
USA-NVUnited States - Nevada
 (Onuferko et al., 2021; Onuferko et al., 2021 [as Melecta mucida Cresson, 1879])
USA-OKUnited States - Oklahoma
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-ORUnited States - Oregon
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
USA-SDUnited States - South Dakota
 (Cockerell, 1906 [as Melecta miranda Fox, 1893]; Hurd, 1953)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Krombein et al., 1979; Onuferko et al., 2021)
USA-UTUnited States - Utah
 (Onuferko et al., 2021)
USA-WIUnited States - Wisconsin
 (Mitchell, 1962)

Literature

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - X. Observations on bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains. II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7 (7):125-131.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1878. Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 7:61-136.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1953. Notes on the Melectine Bees of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 26 (1):35-37.
  • Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.
  • Linsley, E. G. 1943. The genus Melecta in eastern North America and Porto Rico (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 51 (3):225-227.
  • Michener, C.D. 1948. Notes on the American bees of the genus Melecta (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 50 (1):15-18.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.
  • Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77.
  • Onuferko, T.M., L. Packer & J.A. Genaro 2021. Brachymelecta Linsley, 1939, previously the rarest North American bee genus, was described from an aberrant specimen and is the senior synonym for Xeromelecta Linsley, 1939. European Journal of Taxonomy 754:1-51.
  • Rozen, J.G., Jr. 2000. Pupal descriptions of some cleptoparasitic bees (Apidae), with a preliminary generic key to pupae of cleptoparasitic bees (Apoidea). American Museum Novitates 3289:1-19.
  • Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197.