Melissodes aurigenia Cresson, 1878:212, ♂♀. 20 ♂♀ (American Entomology Society). Synonymized with Melissodes agilis Cresson, 1878 by Robertson, 1897Robertson, C. 1897. North American bees - Descriptions and synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 7 (14):315-356.:354. - Cresson, 1878Cresson, E.T. 1878. Descriptions of new species of North American bees. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 30:181-221. (distribution); Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. The bees of southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 4 (6/7):99-106. (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); Lovell & Cockerell, 1906Lovell, J.H. & Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Notes on the bees of the southern Maine: Anthophordiae, Halictoididae, Macropidae and Panurgidae. Psyche 13 (5):109-113.:110 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes agilis Cresson, 1878); Cockerell, 1914Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees visiting Helianthus. The Canadian Entomologist 46 (12):409-415. (distribution); Cockerell, 1916Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Sunflower insects in California and South Africa. The Canadian Entomologist 48:76-79. (distribution); Cockerell, 1930Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Bees from Mesa Verde, Colorado, in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates 397:1-8. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:283 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes agilis Cresson, 1878); 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.:2145 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes agilis Cresson, 1878). - As Melissodes agilis aurigenia: - Cockerell, 1898Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. The insect visitors of flowers in New Mexico. - I. Zoologist ser .4: v. 2:78-81. (distribution); Cockerell, 1901Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - X. Observations on bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains. II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 7:125-131. (distribution); Cockerell, 1901Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Flower and insect records from New Mexico. Entomological News 12 (2):38-43. (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, 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); Cockerell, 1928Cockerell, T.D.A. 1928. Some bees from Utah. Psyche 35 (4):232-234. (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.:382 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes agilis Cresson, 1878).
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