Megachile (Megachile) relativa 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 : 127-128

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1458879A-FFBC-FFC6-FF50-5941FE14FE88

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scientific name

Megachile (Megachile) relativa Cresson, 1878
status

 

Megachile (Megachile) relativa Cresson, 1878 View in CoL

Golden-tailed Leafcutter

= Megachile (Xanthosarus) exclamans Viereck, 1916: 743 View in CoL (Connecticut holotype).

Holotype. USA Female: Connecticut: Windham Co.: West Thompson , 12 July 1905, H. L. Viereck ( USNM).

Notes: This common species was first recorded for Connecticut in Viereck et al. (1916) as the junior synonym M. exclamans Viereck. This species is known in Connecticut from habitats such as meadows near forest edges, quarry tops, edges of swamps, and powerline ROW.

Subgenus Sayapis Titus

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

Loc

Megachile (Megachile) relativa Cresson, 1878

Zarrillo, Tracy A., Stoner, Kimberly A. & Ascher, John S. 2025
2025
Loc

Megachile (Xanthosarus) exclamans

Viereck 1916: 743
1916
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