Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33
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Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33 View in CoL . (Connecticut syntype).
Syntype. Male USA: Connecticut: New Haven Co.: “Plymouth” “Waterbury”, July-August, H. F. Bassett or W. H. Patton (lost?) .
Notes: The male syntypes noted above are also presumed lost. All records for this species in Connecticut and from Massachusetts (Veit et al. 2022[“2021”]) are historic, although there are some recent records of the species from New Jersey (E. Wyman pers. comm.), New York (White et al. 2022), and Vermont (S. Hardy pers. comm.). Macropis patellata is recognized as a species of greatest conservation need in Delaware, Massachusetts, and Maryland ( United States Geological Survey 2015) .
Genus Melitta
Reference: Snelling and Stage (1995)
Subgenus Cilissa Leach
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