Megachile (Megachiloides) pascoensis 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 : 320

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

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scientific name

Megachile (Megachiloides) pascoensis Mitchell, 1934
status

 

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

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Pasco , Franklin Co., Washington, USA; May 25, 1896]

Megachile pascoensis View in CoL specializes on pollen from the genus Clarkia Pursh ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . This represents a new species record for Mexico. The BBPT collected two females in the transition zone between the Succulent Coastal Matorral and the Central Desert in April 2023 (MABC). See fig. 227.

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

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile