Melissodes (Melissodes) tepidus 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 : 178

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scientific name	Melissodes (Melissodes) tepidus Cresson, 1878
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Melissodes (Melissodes) tepidus Cresson, 1878 View in CoL

[ Holotype: ANSP: ♀ Nevada, USA]

Melissodes tepidus is distributed in the western USA and northern Mexico. In the BCP, it was reported by LaBerge (1956) from various localities within the Lower Colorado Desert. However, there have been no subsequent reports of this species within BC. See fig. 111.

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

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