Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897
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Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897 (mandibularis group)
Holotype. ♂ USA, Michigan (?) (Michigan Agricultural College), 17 Apr. 1886 (INHS 179717) = Sphecodes persimilis Lovell & Cockerell 1907
County records: Alger, Antrim, Calhoun, Ingham, Kent, Leelanau, Livingston, Oakland, Ottawa, Tuscola, Van Buren.
Notes. This is a common and widespread species, originally described from a single male specimen. It is considered a senior synonym of S. persimilis, which was described from the female. Mitchell (1960) pointed out the possible synonymy and Abrams & Eickwort (1980) considered this probable. Mike Arduser and JSA have each applied this synonymy, but its establishment was relatively obscure since it was not done as part of a published revision but rather has appeared online and implicitly in faunal checklists (Arduser 2010; Ascher et al. 2014; Goldstein & Ascher 2016). Sphecodes davisii is a cleptoparasite of Agapostemon virescens (Fabricius) and A. sericeus (Förster) (Abrams & Eickwort 1980).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Robertson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Halictidae
- Genus
- Sphecodes
- Species
- davisii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphecodes davisii Robertson, 1897 sec. Gibbs, Ascher, Rightmyer & Isaacs, 2017
References
- Robertson, C. (1897) North American bees-Descriptions and synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 7, 315 - 356.
- Lovell, J. H. & Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907) The Megachilidae of Southern Maine. Psyche, 14, 15 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1155 / 1907 / 91629
- Mitchell, T. B. (1960) Bees of the Eastern United States: volume I. N. C. Agricultural Experimental Station Technical Bulletin, 141, 1 - 538.
- Abrams, J. & Eickwort, G. C. (1980) Biology of the communal sweat bee Agapostemon virescens (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in New York State. Search: Agriculture, 1, 1 - 20.
- Arduser, M. (2010) Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Kitty Todd Preserve, Lucas County, Ohio. The Great Lakes Entomologist, 43, 52 - 75.
- Ascher, J. S., Kornbluth, S. & Goelet, R. G. (2014) Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) of Gardiners Island, Suffolk County, New York. Northeastern Naturalist, 21, 47 - 71. https: // doi. org / 10.1656 / 045.021.0105
- Goldstein, P. Z. & Ascher, J. S. (2016) Taxonomic and behavioral composition of an island fauna: A survey of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 118, 37 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.118.1.37