Macrotera (Macroterella) mellea ( Timberlake, 1954 )

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 : 82

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935740
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scientific name	Macrotera (Macroterella) mellea ( Timberlake, 1954 )
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Macrotera (Macroterella) mellea ( Timberlake, 1954) View in CoL

[ Holotype: UCRC; ♂ Picacho Pass , Arizona, USA; August 7, 1940]

Macrotera mellea View in CoL is widely distributed in the northwestern deserts of Mexico. This species specializes on pollen from plants in the family Euphorbiaceae View in CoL , specifically in the genus Euphorbia View in CoL L. ( Fowler 2020). It has been recorded in the Gulf Coast region of BCS and specimens are preserved in the CASC and BBSL ( Timberlake 1954; Danforth 1996). We confirmed six specimens (4 ♀, 2 ♂) vouchered at CASC, of which five are paratypes collected in Canipole (3 ♀) and Coyote Cove (1 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 35.

References

Danforth, B. N. (1996) Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Perdita subgenera Macrotera, Macroteropsis, Macroterella and Cockerellula (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 55 (16), 635.

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

Timberlake, P. H. (1954) A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) Part I. University of California Publications in Entomology, 9 (6), 345 - 432.