Megachile (Litomegachile) texana 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 : 319

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson, 1878
status

 

Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson, 1878 View in CoL

[ Holotype: ANSP; ♂ Texas, USA]

This species is widely distributed across North America. In the BCP, it has been recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in 1921 ( Cockerell 1924) and the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in June 1980 ( BBSL). The BBPT collected this species in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in August 2020 and May 2022 (2 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 225 .

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1924) VII: Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921: The Bees (II). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 7 (27), 529 - 560.

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

ANSP

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

BBSL

USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Pollinating Insects-- Biology, Management and Systematics Research

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile