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Coelioxys (Boreocoelioxys) moestus Cresson 1864

Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, Zootaxa 4352 (1), pp. 1-160 : 103

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 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1

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scientific name

 Coelioxys (Boreocoelioxys) moestus Cresson 1864
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Coelioxys (Boreocoelioxys) moestus Cresson 1864 View in CoL View at ENA

County records: Arenac, Calhoun, Cheboygan, Dickinson, Huron, Iron, Kalamazoo, Keweenaw, Marquette, Mecosta, Midland, Montcalm, Oscoda, Washtenaw.

Notes. Hosts include Megachile frigida Smith and M. texana Cresson ( Pengelly 1955) , M. centuncularis (L.) ( Medler 1959; Sheffield et al. 2008), M. lapponica Thomson ( Peck & Bolton 1946), M. relativa Cresson ( Medler & Koerber 1958; Medler & Lussenhop 1968; Sheffield et al. 2008; Strickler & Scriber 1994), and possibly M. rotundata (Fab.) ( Hobbs 1968) (see C. funerarius Smith entry below), M. melanophaea Smith ( Pengelly 1955) and M. pusilla ( Baker 1975) .

Baker, J. R. (1975) Taxonomy of five Nearctic subgenera of Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 50, 49 - 730.

Cresson, E. T. (1864) On the North American species of several genera of Apidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 2, 373 - 411.

Hobbs, G. A. (1968) Controlling insect enemies of the alfalfa leaf-cutter bee, Megachile rotundata. The Canadian Entomologist, 100, 781 - 784. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / ent 100781 - 7

Medler, J. T. & Koerber, T. W. (1958) Biology of Megachile relativa Cresson (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae) in trap-nests in Wisconsin. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 51, 337 - 344. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 51.4.337

Medler, J. T. (1959) A note on Megachile centuncularis (Linn.) in Wisconsin (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 91, 113 - 115. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / ent 91113 - 2

Medler, J. T. & Lussenhop, J. F. (1968) Leafcutter bees of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Research Bulletin, 274, 1 - 80.

Peck, O. & Bolton, J. L. (1946) Alfalfa seed production in northern Saskatchewan as affected by bees, with a report on means of increasing the populations of native bees. Scientific Agriculture, 26, 388 - 418.

Pengelly, D. H. (1955) The biology of bees of the genus Megachile with special reference to their importance in alfalfa seed production in southern Ontario. Cornell University, PhD dissertation, Ithaca, New York, 538 pp.

Sheffield, C. S., Kevan, P. G., Westby, S. M. & Smith, R. F. (2008) Diversity of cavity-nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) within apple orchards and wild habitats in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 140, 235 - 249. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / n 07 - 058

Strickler, K. & Scriber, J. M. (1994) ELF Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program: Biological studies of pollinating insect studies: Megachilid bees. Final Report. IIT Research Institute Technichal Report, DO 6212 - 6, 1 - 154.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Megachilidae

SubFamily

Megachilinae

Tribe

Megachilini

Genus

Coelioxys

SubGenus

Boreocoelioxys

Specimens