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