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Megachile argentata
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratory of Zoology, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Place du parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium & Department of Plant Protection and Environment, Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture, Km 10, Route Haj Kaddour, BP S / 40, Meknès 50001, Maroc
- 2. Laboratory of Zoology, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Place du parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium
- 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, the Netherlands
- 4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
- 5. Laboratory of Zoology, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Place du parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium & Department of Biology – Invertebrates, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
- 6. Mönchhofstr. 16, nigrif 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- 7. Zoological Museum, University of Kiel, Hegewischstr. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
- 8. Natural History Museum of Neuchâtel, Terreaux 14, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 9. ETH Zürich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Biocommunication and Entomology, Schmelzbergstrasse 9 / LFO, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- 10. Department of Plant Protection and Environment, Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture, Km 10, Route Haj Kaddour, BP S / 40, Meknès 50001, Maroc
- 11. Via dei Tarquini 22, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
- 12. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, CZ- 12844 Prague, Czech Republic
Description
Megachile argentata (Fabricius, 1793)
Notes. Megachile pilidens and M. crassula were synonymised with M. argentata, which is the senior synonym (Praz & Benon 2023).
Regional distribution. Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Fès-Meknès, Marrakech-Safi, Drâa-Tafilalet.
Global distribution. Widespread in southern Europe and in expansion in northern Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Greece, Iran, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan (Praz & Benon 2023).
Notes
Published as part of Sentil, Ahlam, Ghisbain, Guillaume, Wood, Thomas J., Bogusch, Petr, Dorchin, Achik, Flaminio, Simone, Kasparek, Max, Kuhlmann, Michael, Litman, Jessica, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Rasmont, Pierre, Rosa, Paolo, Joutei, Abdelmalek Boutaleb, Selis, Marco, Straka, Jakub & Lhomme, Patrick, 2026, An updated checklist of the wild bees of Morocco (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 5747 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5747.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19166645
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Species
- argentata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megachile argentata (Fabricius, 1793) sec. Sentil, Ghisbain, Wood, Bogusch, Dorchin, Flaminio, Kasparek, Kuhlmann, Litman, Michez, Müller, Rasmont, Rosa, Joutei, Selis, Straka & Lhomme, 2026
References
- Praz, C. J. & Benon, D. (2023) Revision of the leachella group of Megachile subgenus Eutricharaea in the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Megachilidae): A renewed plea for DNA barcoding type material. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 95, 143-198. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.95.96796