Andrena (Parandrena) wellesleyana Robertson, 1897

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 : 70

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scientific name	Andrena (Parandrena) wellesleyana Robertson, 1897
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Andrena (Parandrena) wellesleyana Robertson, 1897 View in CoL

Wellesley Willow Miner

Notes: There are twenty records for this willow specialist (Wood & Roberts 2018) in Connecticut. Five specimens were collected between 1915 and 1916 by H. L. Johnson in “South” Meriden (New Haven County), and then 56 years later this species was detected again on 25–27 April 1972 (n = 12) in Coventry (Tolland County) and Mansfield ( Tolland County ). Veit et al. (2022[“2021”]) reported this species to be associated with interior sandplains and former gravel/sand pits in Massachusetts. Connecticut locality information is imprecise, with general references made to inland wetlands, such as “near Chapins Pond” ( Mansfield ) or “near Eagleville Dam” (Coventry). The two latest records collected by C. T. Maier on 21 April 1997 and 31 March 1998 were taken in a “heavily disturbed (ATV’s) sandy area” (C. T. Maier pers. comm.) in “North Haven 0.5 km NNW of interchange 12 ( US Highway 5) on Interstate 91”, which is in New Haven County .

Subgenus Plastandrena Hedicke