Melitoma segmentaria (Fabricius, 1804)
Lateral view of female of Melitoma segmentaria (Fabricius, 1804) Photo: M.Lucia
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Solitary bees, soil excavators
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- Misiones
- Salta
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru
- Melitoma euglossoides Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
- Anthophora fulvifrons Smith, 1854
- Meliphila ipomoeae Schrottky, 1902
- Exomalopsis monozonula Cockerell, 1949
Nest of M. segmentaria are parasitized by Melittobia hawaiiensis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) (Aquino et al. 2015)
Ipomoea bonaerensis, Ipomoea cairica and Ipomoea indica (Ramello et al. 2021)
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- SCHROTTKY, C. 1913. La distribución geográfica de los himenópteros argentinos. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 75: 180-286
- ROIG-ALSINA, A. 1998b. Sinopsis generica de la tribu Emphorini, com la descripción de tres nuevos géneros (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Physis (B. Aires) 56 (130-131): 17–25
- TORRETTA, J. P., & POGGIO, S. L . 2013. Species diversity of entomophilous plants and flower-visiting insects is sustained in the field margins of sunflower crops. Journal of Natural History, 47(3-4), 139-165.
- AQUINO, D., ALVAREZ, L.J., LUCIA, M. & ABRAHAMOVICH, A.H. 2015. First record of the parasitoid Melittobia hawaiiensis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) associated with Emphorini bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 50: 1-4
- MAZZEO, N. M., & TORRETTA, J. P. 2015. Wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in an urban botanical garden in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 50(3), 182-193.
- SCHALLER, A. & ROIG-ALSINA, A. 2019. The nesting habits and flower relationships of the bee Melitoma ameghinoi (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera, Apidae), with notes on its taxonomy and distribution. Journal of Natural History, 53:27-28, 1633-164
- RAMELLO, P.J., ALVAREZ, L.J., ALMADA, V. AND LUCIA, M. 2021. The melittofauna and its floral associations in a natural riparian forest in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.J. Api. Res, 60(2): 241-254
- TORRETTA, J. P., MARRERO, H. J., GONZÁLEZ-VAQUERO, R., & GARIBALDI, L. A. 2023. Solitary bees in Pampean agroecosystems: a review about current status of knowledge. Journal of Apicultural Research. 1-20.
