Melissodes (Melissodes) tessellatus 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 : 180

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scientific name	Melissodes (Melissodes) tessellatus LaBerge, 1956
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Melissodes (Melissodes) tessellatus LaBerge, 1956 View in CoL

[ Holotype: SEMC; ♂ Idyllwild , California, USA; August 3, 1935]

This species is possibly the most abundant Melissodes species in the BCP. M. tessellatus is distributed along the western coast of North America. It has been documented in nearly all ecoregions across the three provinces within the BCP. Based on our own data from the peninsula, its flight season spans from March to November. We reviewed 19 specimens (CASC) and collected 146 specimens (101 ♀, 45 ♂) in 2019, 2020, and 2021 (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 112.

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