Megachile bidens, Friese

Raw, Anthony, 2002, New combinations and synonymies of leafcutter and mason bees of the Americas (Megachile, Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), Zootaxa 71 (1), pp. 1-43 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.71.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6278503
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scientific name	Megachile bidens
status	comb. nov.

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bidens Friese View in CoL , new combination by association.

Megachile bidens Friese 1911: 256 View in CoL [new name].

Megachile bidentata Smith 1853: 190 View in CoL . Male. Type locality: Mexico. Type repository: BNHM 17a2416. Examined. (Not M. (Pseudocentron) bidentata Fabricius 1775 View in CoL [North or Central America].) Dalla Torre (1896: 422) listed the species of both Fabricius and Smith but gave no new name.

Megachile (Cressoniella) bidentata Smith View in CoL (in Ayala et al 1997: 455).

References

Ayala, R., Griswold, T. & Yanega, D. (1997) Apoidea (Hymenoptera): 423 - 464. In: Bosquets, J. L., Aldrete, A. N. & Soriano, E. G. [eds.] Biodiversidad, taxonomia, biogeografia de artopodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico, Mexico.

Dalla Torre, C. G. de. (1896) Catalogus Hymenopterorum, 10: Apidae (Anthophila). Engelmann, Leipzig, 643 pp.

Friese, H. (1911) Das Tierreich. Apidae I. Megachilinae. R. Friedlander und Sohn, Berlin. 440 pp.

Smith, F. (1853) Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Trustees of the British Museum, 195 pp.