Melissoptila otomita ( 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 : 181

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940590
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scientific name	Melissoptila otomita ( Cresson, 1878 )
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[ Holotype: ANSP; ♂ Mexico]

Bees in this genus are primarily neotropical. The northern range for Melissoptila otomita begins in central Texas and it is distributed in tropical areas of Mexico and Central America. The only available records within the BCP are from CARCIB in September 2016 in the Cape Mountains in Sierra la Laguna, BCS (2 ♂, 1 ♀). See fig. 113 .

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