kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Hymenoptera >
superfamily: Apoidea >
family: Megachilidae >
subfamily: Megachilinae >
tribe: Megachilini >
genus: Megachile Latreille, 1802 >
Middle America , North America
[1]
Smith, Frederick / Gray, John Edward, ed. (1853). Andrenidae and Apidae. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, Part I.
[2]
Mitchell, Theodore B. (1937). A Revision of the Genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI Taxonomy of Subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 63, No. 1.