Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33

Zarrillo, Tracy A., Stoner, Kimberly A. & Ascher, John S., 2025, Biodiversity of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Connecticut (USA), Zootaxa 5586 (1), pp. 1-138 : 134-135

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5586.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:824780E1-1CF8-4836-BD37-A8056FB4C7C7

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1458879A-FF47-FF3F-FF50-581DFE14FE99

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scientific name

Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33
status

 

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Melittidae

Genus

Macropis

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