Melitta (Cilissa) melittoides (Viereck, 1909)

Melitta (Cilissa) melittoides (Viereck, 1909) View in CoL

Lyonia Blunt-horn

Notes: Seventy-eight percent of the records (n = 54) for this species in Connecticut were collected near inland wetlands such as ponds and lakes by G. I. Stage in Stafford and Ellington (Tolland County), with 40 specimens captured between 1972–1976, and fourteen captured between 1990–1999. Twenty percent (n = 14) were captured during surveys of powerline ROW in Montville and Bozrah ( Tolland County ) with dates spanning 2005–2017. Fifty-eight percent of the Connecticut records were netted from its host plant, maleberry ( Lyonia ligustrina ). All but one early record collected in 1921 (from Colebrook , Litchfield County ) are from eastern Connecticut in Tolland and New London County .

APPENDIX 2. Problematic Species

Here we report and annotate eight excluded species whose presence in Connecticut is improbable based on known distribution, two unresolved morphotypes, five species with taxonomic confusion, and three expected species including one also with taxonomic confusion ( Table 4) that could be in Connecticut based on recent records in neighboring states.