Melissodes Latreille

Vivallo, Felipe, 2009, Notes on the bee genus Alloscirtetica Holmberg, 1909 in northern Chile with the description of two new altiplanic species and a key for the Chilean species of Eucerini (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 2010, pp. 16-30 : 23

Melissodes Latreille

Melissodes bruneri (Cockerell) , M. ecuadoria Schrottky & Bertoni , M. nigroaenea (Smith) , M. sexcinta (Lepeletier) , M. tintinnans (Holmberg) and M. rufodentata Smith are the South American species of this genus ( Urban 1973). These species are quite similar to each other, especially the males, which can be differentiated mainly by the color of the pilosity. The only species of the genus occurring in Chile is Melissodes ecuadoria .