Megachile (Argyropile) townsendiana Cockerell
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Megachile (Argyropile) townsendiana Cockerell
Cockerell 1898: 129, ♂. Type locality: Las Cruces, New Mexico. Type repository: CAS.
Ayala et al. 1997: 455 [distribution in Mexico]
Yañez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz 2004: 188 [distribution in Mexico]
Mitchell 1937: 54 (Figs. mandible, genitalia and associated sterna, Pls. V and VI); 1943a: 13; 1962: 161 [♂ genitalia and associated sterna, Fig. 50, 52 and 55; Fig. 51, mandible of Ψ and ♂]
bishoppi Cockerell, 1915: 535, ♂. Type locality: Paris, Texas, USA. Type repository: USNM.
Mitchell 1937: 54 [synonymy with townsendiana]
Distribution. Southwestern United States to northern Mexico.
Floral records. Actinella, Baileya multiradiata, B. pleniradiata, Encelia frutescens, Geraea canescens, Chrysopsis villosa, Haplopappus acuadenius, Helianthus debilis, Hoffmanseggia— Leguminosae, Hymenopappus filifolius, Larrea tridentata— Zygophyllaceae, Lepidium montanum— Brassicaceae, Medicago sativa— Fabaceae, Melanthera parviflora, Pectis papposa, Phacelia robusta— Hydrophyllaceae, Prosopis— Leguminosae, Verbesina encelioides, Wislizenia refracta— Capparaceae.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Cockerell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Species
- townsendiana
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1898) Some bees of the genus Megachile from New Mexico and Colorado. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1, 125 - 130.
- Ayala, R., Griswold, T. & Yanega, D. (1997) Apoidea. In: Bosquets, J. L., Aldrete, A. N. & Soriano, E. G. (Eds.), Biodiversidad, taxonomia y biogeografia de artropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico, Mexico D. F., pp. 423 - 464.
- Yanez-Ordonez, O. & Hinojosa-Diaz, I. (2004) La coleccion himenopterologica (Insecta) del museo de zoologia " Alfonso L. Herrera " de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, 20, 167 - 197.
- Mitchell, T. B. (1937) A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 63, 45 - 83 (Pls. V - VI).
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1915) Descriptions and records of bees -- LXVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 5, 529 - 537.