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Megachile mendozana Cockerell, 1907
Megachile cornuta_homonym Smith, 1879 Megachile mendozana Cockerell, 1907, replacement name Megachile rhinoceros_homonym Friese, 1908 Megachile verticalis Friese, 1920, replacement name Megachile (Sayapis) opsiphanes Moure, 1943 Megachile (Sayapis) santiaguensis Durante, 1996

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Subgenus: Sayapis


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Extracted from: Cockerell T.D.A, (1913). Description and Records of Bees. - XXVI.

Argentina (O. W. Thomas ; Brit. Museum, 1904, 148). 1 MALE. This species was described from the female as cornata, Sm., and rhinoceros, Friese, both preoccupied names. The insect before me is certainly the male of rhinoceros as described by Vachal ; it also runs to rhinoceros in Friese's table of Argentine Megachile, and to mendozana in Jorgensen's Mendozansa table. It is, however, smaller than the size given by Friese for male rhinoceros, and the mesothorax is more shining, with the punctures ; conspicuously larger and less dense than in a female rhinoceros from Mendoza now before me. There are perhaps two species at present confused by authors under mendozana or rhinoceros.


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