Melecta (Melecta) pacifica Cresson, 1878

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 : 213

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940760
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scientific name	Melecta (Melecta) pacifica Cresson, 1878
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Melecta (Melecta) pacifica Cresson, 1878 View in CoL **

[ Lectotype: ANSP: ♂ California, USA]

This species has a wide distribution in the USA and this study presents the first documented report of Melecta pacifica in Mexico. Both females and males were collected during April and May in 2021 and 2022 in the Coastal Sage Matorral of Guadalupe Valley (MABC). See fig. 140.

References

Cresson, E. T. (1878) Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 7, 61 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 25076368