Melissodes (Eumelissodes) agilis 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 : 173-174

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scientific name	Melissodes (Eumelissodes) agilis Cresson, 1878
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Melissodes (Eumelissodes) agilis Cresson, 1878 View in CoL [Paralectotypes: USNM, ANSP; ♂ Texas, USA]

Melissodes agilis View in CoL is widely distributed across the USA and northern Mexico. The BBPT collected 52 specimens (33 ♂, 19 ♀) in the Coastal Sage Matorral of Maneadero and Valle de Guadalupe, BC in June and September 2020 ( MABC). This species specializes on pollen from several plant genera in the family Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . See fig. 107.

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

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