A review of the North and Central American Megachile subgenus Argyropile Mitchell (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)
Author
Gonzalez, Victor H.
Author
Griswold, Terry L.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1461
1
14
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.176447
4e0587de-9bf5-4780-a4f1-eb07decf5c74
1175-5326
176447
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
]
FIGURES 25–38.
Fore coxa (25–27), sterna four (28–29), and five (30–32) of males. Terga six, dorsal and ventral views (33–35) and seven, dorsal view (36–38) of males.
M. flavihirsuta
(28);
M. longuisetosa
sp. nov.
(25, 30, 33, 36);
M. rossi
(26, 29, 31, 34, 37);
M. sabinensis
(27, 32, 35, 38).
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
.