Subgenus Dasymegachile Mitchell
Megachile subgenus Dasymegachile Mitchell 1943b: 669-670. Type species: Megachile saulcyi Guerín. Original designation.
Cressoniella subgenus Dasymegachile Mitchell 1980: 63.
Cressoniella (Chaetochile) Mitchell 1980: 63. Type species: Megachile golbachi Schwimmer, in Mitchell 1980. Original designation and monotypy. Synonymy of Michener 2000: 555.
The 13 members of the subgenus are mostly restricted to the Andes and are several are found at high altitudes.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) australis Durante and Abrahamovich.
Durante and Abrahamovich 2002: 361-366. Female. Type locality: Valle Tunel, southwestern Santa Cruz province, Argentina (49o 23' S; 72o 56' W). Type repository: ?
DISTRIBUTION. ARGENTINA: SC.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) chilensis Spinola
Megachile chilensis Spinola 1851: 178. Female. Type locality: Chile. Type repository: ?
Synonym of M. saulcyi Guérin, see Alfken 1904: 141.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) chilensis Raw 2002 #7: 14.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES. Cockerell 1905: 338 (R-F); 1926a: 216 (D). Delfin 1900: 20 (D). Friese 1910: 644, 660 (D, L, P). Herbst 1917: 267-269 (D, R-FM); 1921: 104 (D). Schrottky 1913b: 247 (D).
DISTRIBUTION. ARGENTINA: CB; NE. CHILE: Coquimbo; Santiago; Talcahuano; Valdivia- Rancagua. PERU: Tingo, Yura.
FLOWERS. Encelia canescens, Mesembryanthemum.
PREDATOR. Coelioxys brevicaudata ?
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) cinerea Friese
Megachile cinerea Friese 1905: 137. Sex ? Type locality: Santiago (Philippi)/ Concepcion (Herbst), Chile. Type repository: Vienna.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) cinerea Raw 2002 #7: 14.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE. Vachal 1909: 8 (K).
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) coquimbensis Ruiz
Megachile coquimbensis Ruiz 1938: 151. Type locality: Bano del Toro, Chile. Type repository: Col. San Pedro Notasio, Santiago, Chile.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) coquimbensis Raw 2002 #7: 14.
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) eumelanotricha Moure
Megachile (Dasymegachile) eumelanotricha Moure 1956: 103. Female. Type locality: Illimani (4700 m), Bolivia, January to April 1950 (W. Forster). Type repository: SMM.
DISTRIBUTION. BOLIVIA: Illimani (4500-5000m). PERU: Putumayo- Puno (3900 m).
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) garleppi Friese
Megachile garleppi Friese 1904: 186-187. Sex ? Type locality: Callanga and Vilcanota, Peru and Arica, Chile. Type repository: NHMW.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) garleppi Mitchell 1943b: 670.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE. Cockerell 1914d: 310 (D).
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE: Arica. PERU: AY- Callango; San Bartolomeo; Vilcanota.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) golbachi (Schwimmer)
Cressoniella (Chaetochile) golbachi Schwimmer, in Mitchell 1980: 87-92. Megachile (Dasymegachile) golbachi Silveira et al 2002: 212 (D).
DISTRIBUTION. ARGENTINA: CA; JU- LaQuiaca. BRAZIL: RS.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) kuscheli Moure
Megachile Kuscheli Moure 1956: 105-106. Female. Type locality: Bolivia. Type repository: SMM.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) kuscheli Raw 2002 #7: 14.
DISTRIBUTION. BOLIVIA: La Paz (3600-4000m), Laquepalca (3850m), Suaqui (3820m).
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) melanotricha Spinola
Anthidium melanotricha Spinola 1851: 179. Female and male ! Type locality: Chile. Type repository: IZUT.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) melatronicha Raw 2002 #7: 14.
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) piurensis Cockerell
Megachile piurensis Cockerell 1911a: 288-289. Female. Type locality: Piura, Peru, March 1911 (C. H. T. Townsend). Type repository: MCZ/ USNM 55684 ?
Megachile (Dasymegachile) piurensis Mitchell 1943b: 670.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE. Cockerell 1926a: 215 (D, R-F).
DISTRIBUTION. PERU.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) saulcyi Guérin-Méneville
Megachile saulcyi Guérin-Méneville 1845: 450. Sex ? Type locality: Chile. Type repository: ?
Megachile (Dasymegachile) saulcyi Mitchell 1943b: 669.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES. Claude-Joseph 1926: 250-252 (D, M, N). Ruiz 1937: 168 (D). Vachal 1909: 8 (K).
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE: Coquimbo; Santiago.
FLOWERS. Alstroemia ligia, A. versicolor, Senecio adenotrichus, S. glabra, S. hualtata, Stachys, Teucrium bicolor.
LIFE HISTORY. Adults fly in November.
NESTING. Nests in burrows in soil and old walls and in abandoned nests of sphecid and eumenid wasps. Cuts leaves of Amaranthus, Muehlenbeckia sagittifolia and Robinia and petals of Acanthus mollis, Althaea rosea and Lavatera grandiflora.
MORPHOLOGY. Larva described.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) semirufa Sichel
Megachile semirufa Sichel 1867: 150. Female and male. Type locality: Chile. Type repository: NMW.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) semirufa Mitchell 1943b: 670.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES. Camousseight & Barrera 1998 (F). Cockerell 1905: 338 (R). Vachal 1909: 7 (K).
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE. PERU.
FLOWERS. Astragalus.
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Megachile (Dasymegachile) tucumana Vachal
Megachile tucumana Vachal 1908: 241-242. Female and male. Female designated here as lectotype. Type locality: Lara (4000m), Tucuman [Argentina]. Type repository: MNHN. Examined. Left mandible glued.
Megachile (Dasymegachile) melatronicha Raw 2002 #7: 15.
DISTRIBUTION. CHILE.
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