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Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837)

Anthophora taúrea Say, 1837:410, ♂♀. ♂, ♀, Indiana. - As Entechnia taurea: - Cockerell & Porter, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. & W. Porter 1899. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - VII Observations on bees, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7 (4):403-421. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:63-116. (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); Rau, 1929Rau, P. 1929. The Biology and Behavior of Mining Bees, Anthophora abrupta and Entechnia taurea. Psyche 36 (3):155-181. (biology). - As Melitoma taurea: - 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, 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, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution); Hall & Ascher, 2010Hall, H.G., & J.S. Ascher 2010. Surveys of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in natural areas of Alachua County in North-Central Florida. The Florida Entomologist 93 (4):609-629. (distribution); Hall & Ascher, 2011Hall, H.G., & J.S. Ascher 2011. Surveys of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in organic farms of Alachua County in north-central Florida. The Florida Entomologist 94 (3):539-552. (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). - As Podalirius taureus: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.:291 (comb. nov.).

FotoID: 8569
Species: Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837) ♂
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain
Location: USA, Maryland

FotoID: 8570
Species: Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837) ♂
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain
Location: USA, Maryland

FotoID: 8568
Species: Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837) ♂
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain
Location: USA, Maryland

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Area distribution map

map of Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Lutz & Cockerell, 1920)
MEXMexico
 (Lutz & Cockerell, 1920)
USA-ALUnited States - Alabama
 (Mitchell, 1962)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979; Pascarella, 2006; Hall & Ascher, 2010; Hall & Ascher, 2011)
USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
 (Cockerell & Porter, 1899; Cockerell, 1906; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-IDUnited States - Idaho
 (Cockerell, 1906)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Cockerell & Porter, 1899; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-INUnited States - Indiana
 (Say, 1837; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-KSUnited States - Kansas
 (Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-KYUnited States - Kentucky
 (Mitchell, 1962)
USA-LAUnited States - Louisiana
 (Owens et al., 2018)
USA-MOUnited States - Missouri
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-MSUnited States - Mississippi
 (Michener, 1947; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-NCUnited States - North Carolina
 (Mitchell, 1962)
USA-NJUnited States - New Jersey
 (Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-OHUnited States - Ohio
 (Mitchell, 1962)
USA-SCUnited States - South Carolina
 (Mitchell, 1962)
USA-TNUnited States - Tennessee
 (Mitchell, 1962)
USA-VAUnited States - Virginia
 (Mitchell, 1962)

Literature

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:63-116.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. & W. Porter 1899. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - VII Observations on bees, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7 (4):403-421.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Hall, H.G., & J.S. Ascher 2010. Surveys of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in natural areas of Alachua County in North-Central Florida. The Florida Entomologist 93 (4):609-629.
  • Hall, H.G., & J.S. Ascher 2011. Surveys of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in organic farms of Alachua County in north-central Florida. The Florida Entomologist 94 (3):539-552.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.
  • 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. .
  • Rau, P. 1929. The Biology and Behavior of Mining Bees, Anthophora abrupta and Entechnia taurea. Psyche 36 (3):155-181.
  • Say, T. 1837. Descriptions of new species of North American Hymenoptera, and observations on some already described [Concluded from p. 305]. Boston Journal of Natural History 1 (4):361-416.