Melissoptila otomita ( 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 : 181

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.13940590
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FF7C-8ADB-0598-FF2BFA9695AE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Melissoptila otomita ( Cresson, 1878 )
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Melissoptila otomita ( Cresson, 1878) View in CoL

[ Holotype: ANSP; ♂ Mexico]

Bees in this genus are primarily neotropical. The northern range for Melissoptila otomita begins in central Texas and it is distributed in tropical areas of Mexico and Central America. The only available records within the BCP are from CARCIB in September 2016 in the Cape Mountains in Sierra la Laguna, BCS (2 ♂, 1 ♀). See fig. 113 .