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Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878

- As Eucera communis: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 229 (comb. nov.). - As Melissodes communis communis: - LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194. (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); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (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).
Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905:180, ♂. ♂, Garden City, Kansas, August, 1895 (University of Kansas, No. 1062, leg. H.W. Menke); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1055, Holotype ♂ (Snow Entomological Museum at the University of Kansas). Synonymized with Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1053. - 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, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Descriptions and records of bees. - X. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 17 (100):359-369. (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, 1936Cockerell, T.D.A. 1936. Records of Western bees. American Museum Novitates 831:1-6. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:269 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis 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.:2140 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878).
Melissodes Martini Cockerell, 1905:526, ♀. 2 ♀♀, Gallinas River at Las Vegas, New Mexico, Aug. 6 (leg. T.D.A. & W.P. Cockerell); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1056, Holotype ♀ (California Academy of Sciences). Synonymized with Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1053. - 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, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:269 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis 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.:2140 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878).
Melissodes variabilis Robertson, 1905:368, Lectoallotype ♂, Carlinville, Illinois, July 6, 1897 (Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, No. 19780, leg. Charles A. Robertson), designated by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1056, Lectotype ♀, Carlinville, Illinois, August 7, 1895 (Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, No. 17545, leg. Charles A. Robertson), designated by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1056. Synonymized with Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1053. - 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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:269 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis 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.:2140 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878).
Melissodes xanthopteralis Cockerell, 1906:362, ♀. ♂, Fedor, Texas, May 26, 1901 (leg. Birkmann); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1056, Holotype ♂ (California Academy of Sciences). Synonymized with Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1053. - 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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:269 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis 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.:2140 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878).
Melissodes manni Cockerell, 1924:1, ♂. Holotype ♂, Arizona: Garden Canyon, Huachuca Mts. (The American Museum of Natural History, leg. W.M. Mann); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1055, Holotype ♂ (American Museum of Natural History). Synonymized with Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1053. - 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.:2140 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878).
Melissodes hortivagans melanotica Cockerell, 1925:231, LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1056, Holotype ♀ (American Museum of Natural History, New York City). Synonymized with Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:1053. - Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:269 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis 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.:2140 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878).

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Area distribution map

map of Melissodes communis communis Cresson, 1878

Distribution

MEXMexico
 (LaBerge, 1956; Mitchell, 1962)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002)
USA-ALUnited States - Alabama
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-ARUnited States - Arkansas
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Cockerell, 1924 [as Melissodes manni Cockerell, 1924]; LaBerge, 1956; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-COUnited States - Colorado
 (Cockerell, 1936 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; LaBerge, 1956; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-DEUnited States - Delaware
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (LaBerge, 1956; Mitchell, 1962; Pascarella, 2006; Hall & Ascher, 2010; Hall & Ascher, 2011)
USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
 (Dalla Torre, 1896; LaBerge, 1956)
USA-IAUnited States - Iowa
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes variabilis Robertson, 1905]; LaBerge, 1956; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-INUnited States - Indiana
 (LaBerge, 1956; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-KSUnited States - Kansas
 (Cockerell, 1905 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; LaBerge, 1956)
USA-LAUnited States - Louisiana
 (Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; LaBerge, 1956)
USA-MAUnited States - Massachusetts
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-MNUnited States - Minnesota
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-MOUnited States - Missouri
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-MSUnited States - Mississippi
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-NCUnited States - North Carolina
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-NDUnited States - North Dakota
 (LaBerge, 1956; Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-NEUnited States - Nebraska
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Cockerell, 1905 [as Melissodes martini Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes martini Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes martini Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes martini Cockerell, 1905]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes martini Cockerell, 1905]; LaBerge, 1956)
USA-OKUnited States - Oklahoma
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-SCUnited States - South Carolina
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-TNUnited States - Tennessee
 (LaBerge, 1956)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Cockerell, 1906 new [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; Cockerell, 1906 [as Melissodes xanthopteralis Cockerell, 1906]; Cockerell, 1913 [as Melissodes xanthopteralis Cockerell, 1906]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes hortivagans Cockerell, 1905]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Melissodes xanthopteralis Cockerell, 1906]; LaBerge, 1956; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-WYUnited States - Wyoming
 (Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979)

Literature

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  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. New american bees. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18:177-184.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Descriptions and records of bees. - X. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 17 (100):359-369.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees visiting Thurberia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 16:31-32.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1924. New Anthophorid bees from Arizona and Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 113:1-3.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1936. Records of Western bees. American Museum Novitates 831:1-6.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1878. Descriptions of new species of North American bees. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 30:181-221.
  • 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.
  • LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.
  • 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.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.
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  • 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. .
  • 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.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376.
  • 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.