Megachile (Chelostomoides) adelphodonta Cockerell, 1924

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 : 311

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scientific name	Megachile (Chelostomoides) adelphodonta Cockerell, 1924
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[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ Guadalupe Point , Concepcion Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico; June 17, 1921]

Megachile adelphodonta occurs in BCS and Sonora, Mexico and Arizona, USA (Snelling, 1990). Within BCS, this species has been previously reported in the Cape Mountains by BBSL. The CARCIB team collected four females in the Gulf Coast in May (1 ♀), September (1 ♀) 2016, August (1 ♀), and November (1 ♀) 2017. Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in the Magdalena Plains in March (2 ♀) and April 2021 (1 ♀) and La Giganta Ranges in March 2021 (1 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 218 .

References

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.