Megachile (Megachiloides) alata 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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scientific name	Megachile (Megachiloides) alata Mitchell, 1934
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Megachile (Megachiloides) alata Mitchell, 1934 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Palm Canyon , California; April 3, 1925]

Megachile alata View in CoL specializes on pollen from several plants in the family Asteraceae View in CoL including Bahia Lag. View in CoL , Bebbia (Benth.) Greene View in CoL , Encelia Adans. View in CoL , and Helianthus View in CoL L. ( Fowler 2020). This species has only been recorded once in the BCP in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in April 1935 by SDNHM ( GBIF 2023). See fig. 225.

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