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Melitta americana (Smith, 1853)

Cilissa americana Smith, 1853:123, ♀. ♀, United States (E. Doubleday, Esq.); Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:396, Syntype ♀ (NHM). - As Melitta americana: - Michener, 1947Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455. (distribution); Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538. (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); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution); Owens et al., 2018Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307. (distribution).

Melitta americaniformis Viereck, 1909:50, ♀. Holotype ♀, Jamesburg, N. J., July 4 (U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C., No. 12255, leg. Professor John B. Smith); Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:396, Holotype ♀ (USNM). - Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538.:522 ( listed as synonym of Melitta americana (Smith, 1853)); Michez & Eardley, 2007Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.:396 ( listed as synonym of Melitta americana (Smith, 1853)).

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Area distribution map

Distribution

USAUnited States
(Smith, 1853) USA-FLUnited States - Florida
(Pascarella, 2006) USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
(Mitchell, 1960; Krombein et al., 1979; Pascarella, 2006) USA-LAUnited States - Louisiana
(Owens et al., 2018) USA-MAUnited States - Massachusetts
(Mitchell, 1960) USA-MEUnited States - Maine
(Mitchell, 1960; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-MSUnited States - Mississippi
(Michener, 1947; Mitchell, 1960; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-NCUnited States - North Carolina
(Mitchell, 1960) USA-NJUnited States - New Jersey
(Viereck, 1909 [as Melitta americaniformis Viereck, 1909]; Mitchell, 1960; Michez & Eardley, 2007 [as Melitta americaniformis Viereck, 1909])

Literature

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.
Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455.
Michez, D. & C. Eardley 2007. Monographic revision of the bee genus Melitta Kirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 43 (4):379-440.
Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538.
Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307.
Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. .
Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London. 197 pp, 6 pl.
Viereck, H.L. 1909. Descriptions of new Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11:42-51.

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