Megachile (Megachiloides) nevadensis Cresson, 1879

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 : 320

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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scientific name	Megachile (Megachiloides) nevadensis Cresson, 1879
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[ Type: ANSP; ♂ Nevada, USA]

Megachile nevadensis specializes on pollen from late-blooming plants in the family Asteraceae including Chrysothamnus Nutt. , Gutierrezia Lag. , and Helianthus L. ( Fowler 2020). This species represents a new record for Mexico. The BBPT collected one male in September 2022 in the Chaparral near Ensenada City (MABC). See fig. 226.