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Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868

Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868:388, ♂. 2 ♂♂, New Mexico, 1867; LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:422, Lectotype ♂ (Philadelphia Academy of Science). - Cresson, 1868Cresson, E.T. 1868. Catalogue of a small Collection of Hymenoptera made in New Mexico during the summer of 1867. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1:375-388. (distribution); Cresson, 1872Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292. (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); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663. (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); 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 Eucera menuachus: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 240 (comb. nov.). - As Melissodes mennacus: [lapsus] - 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.:2148 (!). - As Melissodes mennacus: [lapsus] - 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.:2148 (!). - As Melissodes menuacha: - Cockerell, 1898Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. The insect visitors of flowers in New Mexico. - I. Zoologist ser .4: v. 2:78-81. (distribution); Cockerell, 1898Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. Appendix to article III. Volume XI. Notes on bees taken at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in September, 1897. Bulletin of the University of New Mexico 1:72-73. (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, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. The bees of Kansas. Entomological News 10 (1):3-4. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (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); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of Florissant, Colorado. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 22:419-455. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1910Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Some bees from Eldora, Colorado. Psyche 17 (6):244-247. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (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).
Melissodes pallida Robertson, 1895:127, ♀. Holotype ♀, Illinois; LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:422, Holotype ♀ (Illniois Natural History Survey, Urbana, No. 9619). Synonymized with Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868 by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:419. - 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); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:295 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868); 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.:2148 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868).
Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905:523, ♀. ♀, Beulah, New Mexico, end of August (leg. Cockerell); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:422, Holotype ♀ (U. S. National Museum, No. 40094). Synonymized with Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868 by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:419. - 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); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:295 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868); 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.:2148 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868).
Melissodes Mizeæ Cockerell, 1905:522, ♀. ♀, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Aug. 11, 1899 (leg. Miss S.L. Mize); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:422, Holotype ♀ (Coll. Timberlake, Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California). Synonymized with Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868 by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:419. - 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); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1907Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. The bees of Boulder County, Colorado. University of Colorado Studies 4:239-259. (distribution); Cockerell, 1912Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLVII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 10 (59):484-494. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:295 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868); 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.:2148 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868).
Melissodes lavata Cockerell, 1924:56, ♀. ♀, Wray, Colorado, August (leg. Dr. Lutz); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:422, Holotype ♀ (American Museum of Natural History, New York City). Synonymized with Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868 by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:419. - Cockerell, 1927Cockerell, T.D.A. 1927. Some North and South American bees. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 20:393-400. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:295 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868); 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.:2148 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868).
Melissodes octobris Cockerell, 1934:30, LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:422, Holotype ♀ (Coll. Timberlake, Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California). Synonymized with Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868 by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:419. - Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:295 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868); 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.:2148 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868).

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Area distribution map

map of Melissodes menuachus Cresson, 1868

Distribution

CAN-AlbCanada - Alberta
 (LaBerge, 1961; Krombein et al., 1979)
CAN-BrCCanada - British Columbia
 (LaBerge, 1961; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)
MEXMexico
 (Cockerell, 1899; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-AguMexico - Aguascalientes
 (LaBerge, 1961)
MEX-ChiMexico - Chihuahua
 (LaBerge, 1961)
MEX-ZacMexico - Zacatecas
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USAUnited States
 (Cockerell, 1906)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Cockerell, 1906; LaBerge, 1961)
USA-CAUnited States - California
 (Cockerell, 1903; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; LaBerge, 1961; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-COUnited States - Colorado
 (Cresson, 1868; Cresson, 1879; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1906; Cockerell, 1907 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1910; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Cockerell, 1924 [as Melissodes lavata Cockerell, 1924]; Cockerell, 1927 [as Melissodes lavata Cockerell, 1924]; LaBerge, 1961 [as Melissodes octobris Cockerell, 1934]; LaBerge, 1961; LaBerge, 1961 [as Melissodes lavata Cockerell, 1924])
USA-IAUnited States - Iowa
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-IDUnited States - Idaho
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Robertson, 1895 [as Melissodes pallida Robertson, 1895]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes pallida Robertson, 1895]; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes pallida Robertson, 1895]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes pallida Robertson, 1895]; LaBerge, 1961; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-KSUnited States - Kansas
 (Cockerell, 1899; LaBerge, 1961)
USA-MNUnited States - Minnesota
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-MTUnited States - Montana
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-NDUnited States - North Dakota
 (LaBerge, 1961; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-NEUnited States - Nebraska
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-NJUnited States - New Jersey
 (Lutz & Cockerell, 1920)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Cresson, 1879; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1898; Cockerell, 1898; Cockerell, 1905 [as Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1905 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1912 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1913; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905]; LaBerge, 1961; LaBerge, 1961 [as Melissodes blakei Cockerell, 1905]; LaBerge, 1961 [as Melissodes mizeae Cockerell, 1905])
USA-NVUnited States - Nevada
 (Cresson, 1879)
USA-ORUnited States - Oregon
 (Cresson, 1879; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; LaBerge, 1961)
USA-SDUnited States - South Dakota
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Cresson, 1872; Cresson, 1879; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; LaBerge, 1961; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-UTUnited States - Utah
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-WAUnited States - Washington
 (LaBerge, 1961)
USA-WIUnited States - Wisconsin
 (LaBerge, 1961; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-WYUnited States - Wyoming
 (LaBerge, 1961)

Literature

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. Appendix to article III. Volume XI. Notes on bees taken at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in September, 1897. Bulletin of the University of New Mexico 1:72-73.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. The insect visitors of flowers in New Mexico. - I. Zoologist ser .4: v. 2:78-81.
  • 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. 1899. The bees of Kansas. Entomological News 10 (1):3-4.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Some bees of the genus Melissodes from the Rocky Mountain Region. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 15 (90):521-529.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314.
  • 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. 1906. The bees of Florissant, Colorado. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 22:419-455.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. The bees of Boulder County, Colorado. University of Colorado Studies 4:239-259.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Some bees from Eldora, Colorado. Psyche 17 (6):244-247.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLVII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 10 (59):484-494.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1924. Anthophorid bees in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 1 (2):49-56.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1927. Some North and South American bees. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 20:393-400.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1868. Catalogue of a small Collection of Hymenoptera made in New Mexico during the summer of 1867. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1:375-388.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Robertson, C. 1895. Notes on bees, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 22 (2):115-128.