Megachile melanophaea
Black-and-gray leafcutter bee
Megachilidae
Vancouver Island Lower Mainland Coast Galiano
Observation notes
Dalla Torre 1896: Vancouver Island. Gibson 1915: Vancouver Island. Buckell 1950: (F.W.L.Sladen), 1906, 1914, 1916, Vancouver; Shawnigan. (G.J.Spencer), 1920, 1926, Vancouver; Newcastle. (E.P.Venables), 1917, Victoria. Tommasi et al. 2004: Greater Vancouver Area. Ratti et al. 2008: Fraser Valley. Biodiversity Galiano Life List: (Andrew Simon), 2017, Galiano Island Community Bee Inventory (specimen LRB17-3865, Lincoln Best, private collection). M. Clausen, Masters thesis: 2017, Delta. Guzman et al., 2023: (Elle), 2005; (Neame), 2007, (Gielens), 2009, (Wray), 2012; (Gillespie), 2014, 2015; (Kelly), 2017, Vancouver Island. (Gehrels), 2013, Lower Mainland. NBSBC Bee Atlas Database: (Zand), 2021, 2023; (Gadzik), 2022; (Wong, (Lee), 2023, Vancouver Island. iNaturalist: Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, Squamish, from 2014.