Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) sila ( LaBerge, 1956 )

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 : 165

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scientific name	Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) sila ( LaBerge, 1956 )
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Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) sila ( LaBerge, 1956)

[ Holotype: SEMC; ♂ Near San Simon , Arizona, USA; July 12, 1952]

This species thrives in the xeric regions of northern Mexico and the southwestern USA. There is only one known record of this species from the BCP from September 1941 in the Central Desert near San Ignacio, BCS ( LaBerge 1958). See fig. 101.

References

LaBerge, W. E. (1956) A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I (Hymenoptera, Apidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 37 (18), 911 - 1194. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 24549

LaBerge, W. E. (1958) Notes on the North and Central American bees of the genus Svastra Holmberg (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 31 (4), 266 - 273.