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Melitta californica Viereck, 1909

Melitta californica Viereck, 1909:47, ♀. Type ♀, Santa Margarita Island, Lower California (California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal.); Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:400, Holotype ♂ (CAS). - Cockerell, 1937Cockerell, T.D.A. 1937. Bees collected in Arizona and California in the spring of 1937. American Museum Novitates 948:1-15. (distribution); Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (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).
Melitta wilmatae Cockerell, 1937:3, ♀. Holotype ♀, Arizona: Dublin (near Yuma), March 8, 1937 (leg. Wilmatte P. Cockerell); Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:400, Holotype ♀ (AMNH). - Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:400 ( listed as synonym of Melitta californica Viereck, 1909).
Melitta maritima Cockerell, 1941:344, ♂. Holotype ♂, Ensenada, Baja California, April 13, 1941; Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:401, Holotype ♂ (lost from UC).

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Area distribution map

map of Melitta californica Viereck, 1909

Distribution

MEXMexico
 (Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-BaCMexico - Baja California
 (Viereck, 1909; Cockerell, 1937; Cockerell, 1941 [as Melitta maritima Cockerell, 1941]; Michez & Eardley, 2007 [as Melitta maritima Cockerell, 1941]; Michez & Eardley, 2007; Esperanza de Pedro, 2021)
MEX-BCSMexico - Baja California Sur
 (Esperanza de Pedro, 2021)
USAUnited States
 (Michez & Eardley, 2007 [as Melitta wilmatae Cockerell, 1937])
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Cockerell, 1937 [as Melitta wilmatae Cockerell, 1937])

Literature

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1937. Bees collected in Arizona and California in the spring of 1937. American Museum Novitates 948:1-15.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1941. Observations on plants and insects in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, with descriptions of new bees. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 9 (31):337-352.
  • Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :.
  • Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.
  • 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.
  • Viereck, H.L. 1909. Descriptions of new Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11:42-51.