Macrotera (Macroterella) mellea ( Timberlake, 1954 )

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 : 82

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935740
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scientific name	Macrotera (Macroterella) mellea ( Timberlake, 1954 )
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Macrotera (Macroterella) mellea ( Timberlake, 1954) View in CoL

[ Holotype: UCRC; ♂ Picacho Pass , Arizona, USA; August 7, 1940]

Macrotera mellea View in CoL is widely distributed in the northwestern deserts of Mexico. This species specializes on pollen from plants in the family Euphorbiaceae View in CoL , specifically in the genus Euphorbia View in CoL L. ( Fowler 2020). It has been recorded in the Gulf Coast region of BCS and specimens are preserved in the CASC and BBSL ( Timberlake 1954; Danforth 1996). We confirmed six specimens (4 ♀, 2 ♂) vouchered at CASC, of which five are paratypes collected in Canipole (3 ♀) and Coyote Cove (1 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 35.