Distribution
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Colo., N. Mex., Utah, Ariz., Calif., deserts.
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- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Comprehensive Description
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Megachile (Xeromegachile) fucata Cockerell
This species, described from Alamagordo, New Mexico, ranges through portions of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona to southern California (Mitchell, 1934, 1937a; Butler, 1965). In the Colorado Desert of southern California it has been taken at Larrea flowers in Palm Canyon, Borrego Valley, San Diego County, and at Twenty Nine Palms, San Bernardino County, by Timberlake, and in the vicinity of Oasis, Riverside County (Timberlake and Linsley). It is an early spring species, occurring mainly in March. Although females collect pollen from Larrea, they have also been captured at flowers of Aster and Baileya (Timberlake). Butler (1965) also records it as M. histrata Mitchell from Cercidium and Prosopis.
- bibliographic citation
- Hurd, Paul D., Jr. and Linsley, E. Gorton. 1975. "The principal Larrea bees of the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-74. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.193
Megachile fucata: Brief Summary
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Megachile fucata is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Mitchell in 1934.
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