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Melissa insignis Smith, 1879

Melissa insignis Smith, 1879:108, ♂♀. ♂, ♀, S. Mexico, Orizaba (British Museum); Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31:309-364.:315, Type ♂ (British Museum). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution). - As Mesonychium insigne: - Meade-Waldo, 1913Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8 (12):92-103. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Melissa insignis Smith, 1879

Distribution

MEXMexico
 (Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1899)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Smith, 1879; Meade-Waldo, 1913)

Literature

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31:309-364.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8 (12):92-103.
  • Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of new species of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. Taylor and Francis, 1-240.