Osmia (Melanosmia) tersula Cockerell, 1912

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 : 133

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Osmia (Melanosmia) tersula Cockerell, 1912
status

 

Osmia (Melanosmia) tersula Cockerell, 1912 View in CoL

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Notes: The only known record for this northern species in Connecticut was collected at the edge of an inland swamp in Canaan (Litchfield County). This record marks the southern end of its current range limit in the Northeastern United States.

Material examined. Litchfield Co.: Canaan : “ Sand Rd., Robbins Swamp edge, 41.9812 -73.3535 GoogleMaps , 17–21

June 2007, coll. L. Saucier & A. Bouchard, 1 ♀, UCMS, det. J.S. Ascher 2009, bee bowl, UCMS _ ENT 00025954 View Materials .

UCMS

University of Connecticut Biodiversity Research Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Osmia