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Megachile instita Mitchell, 1934

Megachile instita Mitchell, 1934:326, ♂. Holotype ♂, Alamogordo, New Mexico, April 26, 1902 (A.N.S.P., no. 4160); Mitchell, 1936Mitchell, T.B. 1936. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part V. Taxonomy of subgenus Xeromegachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 62 (4):323-382.:373, Type ♂ (A.N.S.P., no. 4160). - 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); Raw, 2002Raw, A. 2002. New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Zootaxa 71:1-43. (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).

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Area distribution map

map of Megachile instita Mitchell, 1934

Distribution

MEXMexico
 (Krombein et al., 1979; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
 (Sagot et al., 2018)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-CAUnited States - California
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Mitchell, 1934; Mitchell, 1936; Krombein et al., 1979; Raw, 2002)

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.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1934. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part I. Classification and descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 59 (4):295-361.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1936. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part V. Taxonomy of subgenus Xeromegachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 62 (4):323-382.
  • 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.
  • Raw, A. 2002. New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Zootaxa 71:1-43.
  • 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.