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Mesoplia azurea (Lepeletier, 1825)

Mesocheira azurea Lepeletier & Serville, 1825:106, ♂♀.Guadeloupe. - As Melissa azurea: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Friese, 1902Friese, H. 1902. Beitrag zur Apidenfauna der grossen Antillen. Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 1-2:196-201. (distribution); Cockerell, 1909Cockerell, T.D.A. 1909. Descriptions and records of bees. - XXIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 4 (23):393-404. (distribution); Friese, 1921Friese, H. 1921. Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 82:74-98. (distribution). - As Mesoplia azurea: - Lepeletier, 1841Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 2. Paris. (distribution); Cockerell, 1912Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLIV. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 9 (53):554-568. (distribution); Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (distribution); Alayo, 1976Alayo, P.D. 1976. Introducción al estudio de los himenópteros de Cuba. Apoidea. Serie Biológica 68:1- 61. (distribution); Snelling & Brooks, 1985Snelling, R.R. & W. Brooks 1985. A review of the genera of cleptoparasitic bees of the tribe Ericrocini (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 369:1-34.:21 (listed); Portuondo Ferrer & Fernández Triana, 2004Portuondo Ferrer, E. & J.L. Fernández Triana 2004. Biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en los macizos montañosos de Cuba oriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35:121-136. (distribution); Genaro, 2004Genaro, J.A. 2004. Las abejas de la isla de la Juventud, Cuba (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 34:177-179. (distribution); Fong et al., 2005 2005. Cuba: Parque Nacional 'Alejandro de Humboldt'. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 14. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-368. (distribution); Gibbs, 2012Gibbs, J. 2012. A new species of Habralictus Moure from Dominica, Lesser Antilles (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). ZooKeys 168:1-12. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232. (distribution); Meurgey & Ramage, 2020Meurgey, F. & T. Ramage 2020. Challenging the Wallacean shortfall: A total assessment of insect diversity on Guadeloupe (French West Indies), a checklist and bibliography. Insecta Mundi 786:1-183. (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). - As Mezonychium azurea: - Zayas, 1982Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111. (distribution).

Melissa imperialis Ashmead, 1900:211, ♂♀. 4 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, St. Vincent. - Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Friese, 1909Friese, H. 1909. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11 (Erstes Heft):34-40. (distribution); Crawford, 1914Crawford, J.C. 1914. Hymenoptera, superfamilies Apoidea and Chalcidoidea, of the Yale-Dominican expedition of 1913. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:131-134. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:216 ( listed as synonym of Mesoplia azurea (Lepeletier, 1825)). - As Mesonychium imperiale: - Meade-Waldo, 1913Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 12:92-103. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Mesoplia azurea (Lepeletier, 1825)

Distribution

CRICosta Rica
(Friese, 1921; Cockerell, 1949) CUBCuba
(Dalla Torre, 1896; Ashmead, 1900; Friese, 1902; Alayo, 1973; Alayo, 1976; Zayas, 1982; Portuondo Ferrer & Fernández Triana, 2004; Fong et al., 2005) CUB-IsJCuba - Isla de Juventud
(Genaro, 2004) DMADominica
(Crawford, 1914 [as Melissa imperialis Ashmead, 1900]; Gibbs, 2012; Meurgey, 2016) GLPGuadeloupe
(Latreille et al., 1825; Lepeletier, 1841; Cockerell, 1912; Meurgey, 2016; Meurgey & Ramage, 2020) GTMGuatemala
(Cockerell, 1949) GUYGuyana
(Dalla Torre, 1896) HNDHonduras
(Cockerell, 1949) JAMJamaica
(Cockerell, 1909) MEXMexico
(Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022) MTQMartinique
(Meurgey, 2016) PANPanama
(Michener, 1954) VCTSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
(Ashmead, 1900 [as Melissa imperialis Ashmead, 1900]; Friese, 1909 [as Melissa imperialis Ashmead, 1900]; Meade-Waldo, 1913 [as Mesonychium imperiale (Ashmead, 1900)]; Meurgey, 2016) WIIWest Indies
(Meade-Waldo, 1913 [as Mesonychium imperiale (Ashmead, 1900)])

Literature

Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218.
Alayo, P.D. 1976. Introducción al estudio de los himenópteros de Cuba. Apoidea. Serie Biológica 68:1- 61.
Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1909. Descriptions and records of bees. - XXIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 4 (23):393-404.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLIV. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 9 (53):554-568.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490.
Crawford, J.C. 1914. Hymenoptera, superfamilies Apoidea and Chalcidoidea, of the Yale-Dominican expedition of 1913. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:131-134.
Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
2005. Cuba: Parque Nacional 'Alejandro de Humboldt'. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 14. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-368.
Friese, H. 1902. Beitrag zur Apidenfauna der grossen Antillen. Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 1-2:196-201.
Friese, H. 1909. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11 (Erstes Heft):34-40.
Friese, H. 1921. Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 82:74-98.
Genaro, J.A. 2004. Las abejas de la isla de la Juventud, Cuba (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 34:177-179.
Gibbs, J. 2012. A new species of Habralictus Moure from Dominica, Lesser Antilles (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). ZooKeys 168:1-12.
Latreille, M., A. Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. Serville & Guérin 1825. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des arachnides et des Insectes. Tome dixième. Agasse, Paris. 1-832.
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 2. Paris.
Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 12:92-103.
Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.
Meurgey, F. & T. Ramage 2020. Challenging the Wallacean shortfall: A total assessment of insect diversity on Guadeloupe (French West Indies), a checklist and bibliography. Insecta Mundi 786:1-183.
Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176.
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.
Portuondo Ferrer, E. & J.L. Fernández Triana 2004. Biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en los macizos montañosos de Cuba oriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35:121-136.
Snelling, R.R. & W. Brooks 1985. A review of the genera of cleptoparasitic bees of the tribe Ericrocini (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 369:1-34.
Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111.

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