Artigos sobre Megachile texana Cresson 1878

Distribution ( Inglês )

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Que. south to Fla., west to B.C. and Calif. (Alta., B.C., Man., Ont., Que., Ala., Ariz., Calif., Colo., Conn., D.C., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., La., Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., Mont., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N. Mex., N.Y., N.C., N. Dak., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., R.I., S. Dak., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va., Wis., and Wyo.); Mexico (Chihuahua, and Sonora).

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citação bibliográfica: 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.

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General Ecology ( Inglês )

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Nests in preexisting holes in the ground, under flat rocks in soil, or tunnels and holes in damp sand.

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citação bibliográfica: 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.

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Comprehensive Description ( Inglês )

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Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson

This is a widely distributed North American species of leaf-cutting bees, ranging from the Atlantic region to the Pacific coast in the United States and southern Canada (Mitchell, 1935). From published records it is obviously polylectic, having been collected on many flowers, especially Leguminosae, Compositae, and Labiatae. Females are in flight from late spring to early fall. The species has been recorded from various desert plants by Butler (1965). In our experience it is the most abundant and consistent of the Megachile taking pollen from Larrea in southeastern Arizona. We have found the females gathering Larrea pollen in large numbers (328 females and 27 males) at most of our sampling sites.

Megachile texana is a ground-nesting species (Krombein, 1953), and we have observed females entering and leaving nests under dead branches and other ground debris among plants in Larrea stands from which they were actively gathering pollen. However, we had no opportunity to observe whether or not they were using previously existing burrows or openings as suggested by Krombein (1970).

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citação bibliográfica: 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

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Megachile texana ( Inglês )

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Megachile texana, the Texas leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae.^[1] It was first described by the American entomologist Ezra Townsend Cresson in 1878.^[1] It is native to the United States and southern Canada.

Description

The female Megachile texana is between 11 and 13 mm (0.43 and 0.51 in) long and the male between 10 and 12 mm (0.39 and 0.47 in). The head and thorax are clad in short, dense whitish hair. The wings are semi-transparent with black veins. The abdomen is barred in black and yellowish-white.^[2]

Biology

The nests of Megachile texana often occur in pasture, with the entrance being under a rock, under a clod of earth or in one case, on a small hillock. The burrows may be up to 25 cm (10 in) long and the upper side is often the underside of a flat stone. Sometimes a pre-existing cavity is used, but females have been observed excavating their own nests. A single cell or several cells may be constructed, each lined with cut portions of leaf in a similar way to the nests of Megachile rubi. Each cell is half-filled with a mixture of pollen and nectar and an egg laid on the food mass. The larva consumes its food supply and when sufficiently developed becomes an inactive prepupa enclosed in a cocoon which fills the cell. The outer surface of the cocoon is wound round with brownish threads.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Megachile". BioLib. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ Sheffield, C.S.; Ratti, C.; Packer, L.; Griswold, T. (2011). "Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson, 1878". Leafcutter and Mason Bees of the Genus Megachilidae Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada and Alaska. Retrieved 2014-12-09.
^ Eickwort, George C.; Matthews, Robert W.; Carpenter, James (1981). "Observations on the Nesting Behavior of Megachile rubi and M. texana with a Discussion of the Significance of Soil Nesting in the Evolution of Megachilid Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 54 (3): 557–570. JSTOR 25084194.

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Megachile texana: Brief Summary ( Inglês )

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Megachile texana, the Texas leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was first described by the American entomologist Ezra Townsend Cresson in 1878. It is native to the United States and southern Canada.

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Megachile texana ( Neerlandês; Flamengo )

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Insecten

Megachile texana is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie Megachilidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1878 door Cresson.^[1]

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