Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson, 1878

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 : 319

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FEF6-8B51-0598-FEBFFB88963E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson, 1878
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Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson, 1878 View in CoL

[ Holotype: ANSP; ♂ Texas, USA]

This species is widely distributed across North America. In the BCP, it has been recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in 1921 ( Cockerell 1924) and the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in June 1980 ( BBSL). The BBPT collected this species in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in August 2020 and May 2022 (2 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 225 .

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Abbreviations

ANSP	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
BBSL	USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Pollinating Insects-- Biology, Management and Systematics Research