Megachile (Sayapis) fidelis Cresson, 1878

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 : 326

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scientific name	Megachile (Sayapis) fidelis Cresson, 1878
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[ Type: ANSP; ♂ Colorado, USA]

Megachile fidelis specializes on pollen from a wide range of genera in the family Asteraceae , which may explain its broad geographic range ( Fowler 2020). This represents a new species record in the BCP. The BBPT collected one female in the Magdalena Plains in March 2021 (MABC). See fig. 230.

References

Cresson, E. T. (1878) Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 7, 61 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 25076368

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