Megachile (Megachiloides) nevadensis Cresson, 1879

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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scientific name	Megachile (Megachiloides) nevadensis Cresson, 1879
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[ Type: ANSP; ♂ Nevada, USA]

Megachile nevadensis specializes on pollen from late-blooming plants in the family Asteraceae including Chrysothamnus Nutt. , Gutierrezia Lag. , and Helianthus L. ( Fowler 2020). This species represents a new record for Mexico. The BBPT collected one male in September 2022 in the Chaparral near Ensenada City (MABC). See fig. 226.

References

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

Abbreviations

ANSP	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Megachilidae
Genus	Megachile

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