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Megachile townsendiana Cockerell, 1898

Megachile Townsendiana Cockerell, 1898:129, ♂. xn, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Aug. 23, 1897 (leg. C.H.T. Townsend); Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.:56, Type ♂ (Cockerell). - Cockerell, 1900Cockerell, T.D.A. 1900. The New Mexico bees of the genus Megachile and a new Andrena. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 6:7-20. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83. (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); Pascarella et al., 1999Pascarella, J.B., Waddington, K.D. & Neal, P.R. 1999. The Bee Fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Everglades National Park, Florida and adjacent areas: Distribution, Phenology, and Biogeography. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (1):32-45. (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); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (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); Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (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).

Megachile bishoppi Cockerell, 1915:535, ♂. ♂, Paris, Texas, May 24, 1904 (U.S. National Museum, leg. F.C. Bishopp). - Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.:54 ( listed as synonym of Megachile townsendiana Cockerell, 1898); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:161 ( listed as synonym of Megachile townsendiana Cockerell, 1898).

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Area distribution map

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Distribution

MEXMexico
(Krombein et al., 1979; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022) MEX-BaCMexico - Baja California
(Mitchell, 1937; Esperanza de Pedro, 2021) MEX-BCSMexico - Baja California Sur
(Esperanza de Pedro, 2021) MEX-CdZMexico - Coahuila
(Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004) MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
(Sagot et al., 2018) MEX-DurMexico - Durango
(Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004) USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
(Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-CAUnited States - California
(Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-COUnited States - Colorado
(Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-FLUnited States - Florida
(Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979; Pascarella et al., 1999; Pascarella, 2006) USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
(Mitchell, 1962) USA-NCUnited States - North Carolina
(Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
(Cockerell, 1900; Cockerell, 1906; Mitchell, 1937; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-OKUnited States - Oklahoma
(Mitchell, 1937; Krombein et al., 1979) USA-TXUnited States - Texas
(Cockerell, 1915 [as Megachile bishoppi Cockerell, 1915]; Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)

Literature

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1898. Some bees of the genus Megachile from New Mexico and Colorado. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 1:125-130.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1900. The New Mexico bees of the genus Megachile and a new Andrena. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 6:7-20.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314.
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. - LXVII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 15:529-537.
Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :.
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. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.
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.
Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. .
Pascarella, J.B., Waddington, K.D. & Neal, P.R. 1999. The Bee Fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Everglades National Park, Florida and adjacent areas: Distribution, Phenology, and Biogeography. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (1):32-45.
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.
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.

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