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Megachile (Litomegachile) lippiae Cockerell
Megachile lippiae is a widespread, polylectic species of northern and western North America, ranging from Quebec to Alberta and Oregon and south to Texas and west to southern California (Mitchell, 1935). It visits a wide variety of desert plants in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California, and adults have been captured from early March to early September. Timberlake took a female at Larrea flowers, 7 miles northeast of Douglas, Arizona, on 11 August 1940. The specimen has only a few grains of pollen on the abdomen.
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- 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
Megachile lippiae: Brief Summary
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Megachile lippiae is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1900.
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