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Megachile (Megachiloides) seducta Mitchell, 1934

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 321

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51

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scientific name

 Megachile (Megachiloides) seducta Mitchell, 1934
status

 

Megachile (Megachiloides) seducta Mitchell, 1934 View in CoL **

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Keen Camp , Riverside County, California, USA; June 6–12, 1917]

Megachile seducta , considered possibly extinct in the USA by NatureServe ( Young et al. 2016), represents a new species record for Mexico. The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May (1 ♀) and June 2020 (2 ♀). Voucher specimens are housed in MABC (2 ♀) and ECOAB (1 ♀) . See fig. 227.

Young, B. E., Schweitzer, D. F., Hammerson, G. A., Sears, N. A., Ormes, M. F. & Tomaino, A. O. (2016) Conservation and Management of North American Leafcutter Bees. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, 24 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Specimens