Protandrena (Pterosarus) pauper (Cresson, 1878)

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 : 78

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scientific name	Protandrena (Pterosarus) pauper (Cresson, 1878)
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Protandrena (Pterosarus) pauper (Cresson, 1878) View in CoL

Ceanothus Bare-Miner

Notes: The two known records for this uncommon species in Connecticut are specimens collected in New Haven County in 1902 and 1905, reported in Viereck et al. (1916) [as Pseudopanurgus parvus Robertson ]. One of the two was collected from its associated host plant, New Jersey tea ( Ceanothus americanus ), a plant associated with xeric, open, sandy, or rocky habitats such as pitch pine-scrub oak barrens and sandplain communities (Wagner et al. 2003). A female was recently collected on New Jersey tea in Massachusetts (Franklin County) on 3 July 2022 by J. Milam in the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area, which is a restored xeric barren (J. Milam pers. comm). This is the first sighting of P. pauper in New England and vicinity since <1932 (Veit et al. (2022[“2021”]).

Material examined. New Haven Co.: New Haven : 4 July 1905, coll. H.L. Viereck, 1 ♀, CAES, det. J.S. Ascher 2008, collected from Ceanothus sp. , UCMS _ ENT 00028194 View Materials ; Hamden : “Mount Carmel”, coll. E.J.S. Moore, 1 ♂, CAES, det. J.S. Ascher 2008, UCMS _ ENT 00028193 View Materials .