Megachile (Megachiloides) soledadensis Cockerell, 1900

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 : 322

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scientific name	Megachile (Megachiloides) soledadensis Cockerell, 1900
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Megachile (Megachiloides) soledadensis Cockerell, 1900 View in CoL

[ Type: CASC; Soledad Cation , Organ Mts., New Mexico, USA; Aug 15]

Megachile soledadensis View in CoL specializes on pollen from several plants in the family Asteraceae View in CoL that bloom in the late summer ( Fowler 2020). This species occurs in northern Mexico and the southwestern USA. Within the BCP, this species has only been recorded in La Giganta Ranges in October 1979 by TAMU ( GBIF 2023). See fig. 228.

References

Fowler, J. (2020) Pollen specialist bees of the western United States. Available from: https: // jarrodfowler. com / pollen _ specialist. html (accessed 12 May 2024)

GBIF (2023) GBIF Occurrence Download. https: // doi. org / 10.15468 / dl. jzq 6 tm