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Megachile (Megachile) lapponica Thomson 1872
Description
Megachile (Megachile) lapponica Thomson 1872 (New state record)
County records: Keweenaw.
Notes. This record comes from a specimen identified by S. Droege. Due to a paucity of records of this boreal species from the Eastern United States and its similarity to M. relativa, additional collections and molecular confirmation would be desirable. North American populations of this bee were called M. nivalis Friese until Sheffield et al. (2011) placed this in synonymy with M. lapponica, described from Sweden and now considered a naturally Holarctic species.
Nests in logs in Saskatchewan (Peck & Bolton 1946).
Specimen record: Keweenaw Co.: Isle Royale, Davidson Island, N48.1252, W88.5111, 4 Aug. 2013, S. Wilson (1 ♀ PWRC).
Notes
Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854
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Related works
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1063854 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFABFFE37375AB274342FFD0FF94FF9B (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PWRC
- Event date
- 2013-08-04
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Megachile
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Thomson
- Species
- lapponica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-08-04
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megachile (Megachile) lapponica Thomson, 1872 sec. Gibbs, Ascher, Rightmyer & Isaacs, 2017
References
- Sheffield, C. S., Dumesh, S. & Cheryomina, M. (2011 a) Hylaeus punctatus (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), a bee species new to Canada, with notes on other non-native species. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 142, 29 - 43.
- Peck, O. & Bolton, J. L. (1946) Alfalfa seed production in northern Saskatchewan as affected by bees, with a report on means of increasing the populations of native bees. Scientific Agriculture, 26, 388 - 418.