Megachile (Argyropile) townsendiana Cockerell

Gonzalez, Victor H. & Griswold, Terry L., 2007, A review of the North and Central American Megachile subgenus Argyropile Mitchell (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), Zootaxa 1461, pp. 1-14 : 7

Megachile (Argyropile) townsendiana Cockerell

Cockerell 1898: 129, ♂. Type locality: Las Cruces, New Mexico. Type repository: CAS.

Ayala et al. 1997: 455 [distribution in Mexico]

Yañez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz 2004: 188 [distribution in Mexico]

Mitchell 1937: 54 (Figs. mandible, genitalia and associated sterna, Pls. V and VI); 1943a: 13; 1962: 161 [♂ genitalia and associated sterna, Fig. 50 , 52 and 55; Fig. 51 , mandible of Ψ and ♂]

bishoppi Cockerell, 1915: 535, ♂. Type locality: Paris, Texas, USA. Type repository: USNM.

Mitchell 1937: 54 [synonymy with townsendiana ]

Distribution. Southwestern United States to northern Mexico.

Floral records. Actinella , Baileya multiradiata , B. pleniradiata , Encelia frutescens , Geraea canescens , Chrysopsis villosa , Haplopappus acuadenius , Helianthus debilis , Hoffmanseggia— Leguminosae, Hymenopappus filifolius , Larrea tridentata— Zygophyllaceae , Lepidium montanum— Brassicaceae , Medicago sativa— Fabaceae , Melanthera parviflora , Pectis papposa, Phacelia robusta— Hydrophyllaceae , Prosopis— Leguminosae, Verbesina encelioides, Wislizenia refracta— Capparaceae .

Figures

FIGURE 51. Internal phylogeny of Megachile subgenus Argyropile (strict consensus tree, length = 21, CI = 66, RI = 50). Black circles indicate unique changes; white circles indicate homoplastic changes; character numbers are placed above each change, character-states below (Table 1).

FIGURE 39 – 50. Male genitalia and associated sterna. Sternum six (39 – 41), genitalia, dorsal and ventral (42 – 44), and lateral views (45 – 47), and sternum eight (48 – 50). Megachile longuisetosa (39, 42, 45, 48); M. rossi (40, 43, 46, 49); M. sabinensis (41, 44, 47, 50).