Megachile (Sayapis) policaris Say, 1831

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 : 328

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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scientific name	Megachile (Sayapis) policaris Say, 1831
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Megachile (Sayapis) policaris Say, 1831 View in CoL

[ Type: ♀ Louisiana, USA]

Megachile policaris is found from Central America to Canada. This species has been previously reported in the Gulf Coast and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland by ASUHIC, BBSL , and SDNHM ( GBIF 2023 View Materials ). Additionally, we examined two specimens collected in the Central Desert in October 1997 (1 ♀) and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland in November 2016 (1 ♂; BBSL). The CARCIB team collected one male in the Magdalena Plains in October 2017. Furthermore, the BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral (1 ♀), Chaparral (1 ♂), Lower Colorado Desert (1 ♀), Central Desert (1 ♂), and Gulf Coast (2 ♀, 1 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC , and ECOAB. See fig. 232 .