Megachille (Argyropile) parallela Smith, 1853

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 : 310

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scientific name	Megachille (Argyropile) parallela Smith, 1853
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Megachille (Argyropile) parallela Smith, 1853 *

[ Type: NHMUK; ♂ Georgia, USA]

Megachile parallela View in CoL specializes on the pollen from a wide variety of plant genera in the family Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL , which may account for its wide distribution across North America. This species represents a new record for the BCP and it has been collected in every ecoregion except La Giganta Ranges and the Cape Mountains from 2013 to 2023 by CARCIB (39 ♀, 13 ♂), ECOAB (5 ♀, 1 ♂), and MABC (19 ♂, 13 ♀) (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 218.

References

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