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Epicharis elegans Smith, 1862

Epicharis elegans Smith, 1862:152, ♂♀. ♂, ♀, Mexico (British Museum, leg. M. Sallé). - Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. A revision of the genera Epicharis, Centris, Eulema, and Euglossa, belonging to the family Apidae, Section Scopulipedes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4: v. 13:318-322. (distribution); Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); 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); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69. (distribution); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (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); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (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 Centris elegans: - Friese, 1900Friese, H. 1900. Monographie der Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 15:237-350. (distribution).
Epicharis salazari Cockerell, 1949:480, ♀. Holotype ♀, El Salvador: Dept. Santa Tecla, February 1947 (U.S.N.M., No. 58890, leg. Mauricio Salazar). Synonymized with Epicharis elegans Smith, 1862 by Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69.:58.

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Area distribution map

map of Epicharis elegans Smith, 1862

Distribution

CRICosta Rica
 (Snelling, 1984)
GTMGuatemala
 (Snelling, 1984)
MEXMexico
 (Smith, 1862; Smith, 1874; Cresson, 1879; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1899; Friese, 1900; Cockerell, 1906; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-CamMexico - Campeche
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
 (Snelling, 1984; Sagot et al., 2018)
MEX-GueMexico - Guerrero
 (Snelling, 1984; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-JalMexico - Jalisco
 (Snelling, 1984)
MEX-MorMexico - Morelos
 (Snelling, 1984; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-NayMexico - Nayarit
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-OaxMexico - Oaxaca
 (Snelling, 1984; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-PueMexico - Puebla
 (Snelling, 1984; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-SLPMexico - San Luis Potosi
 (Snelling, 1984)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Snelling, 1984; Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002)
NICNicaragua
 (Maes, 1993)
SLVEl Salvador
 (Cockerell, 1949 [as Epicharis salazari Cockerell, 1949]; Snelling, 1984)

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. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Friese, H. 1900. Monographie der Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 15:237-350.
  • Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.
  • Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30.
  • 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.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376.
  • Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011.
  • Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new genera and species of exotic Hymenoptera. Journal of entomology 1:146-155.
  • Smith, F. 1874. A revision of the genera Epicharis, Centris, Eulema, and Euglossa, belonging to the family Apidae, Section Scopulipedes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4: v. 13:318-322.
  • Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69.
  • 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.