Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson 1878

Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, Zootaxa 4352 (1), pp. 1-160 : 109

Megachile (Litomegachile) texana Cresson 1878

County records: Barry, Cass, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Clinton, Dickinson, Gladwin, Grand Traverse, Ingham, Iosco, Iron, Isabella, Kalkaska, Kent, Leelanau, Livingston, Mackinac, Manistee, Marquette, Midland, Missaukee, Oakland, Oceana, Otsego, Ottawa, Shiawassee, Van Buren, Washtenaw, Wayne.

Notes. Several biological notes on this ground-nesting species are available ( Hurd 1979), including from Missouri ( Rau 1922), Colorado ( Hicks 1926), New York ( Eickwort et al. 1981), North Carolina ( Krombein 1953) and Florida ( Krombein 1970). Shallow nests, a few inches long, were also observed in flat sandy soil in Michigan ( Gibbs 2017). One was adjacent to a highbush blueberry field in Van Buren County and a second was in a clearing at Rose Lake, Shiawassee County.