Osmia (Osmia) taurus Smith, 1873

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 : 134

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scientific name	Osmia (Osmia) taurus Smith, 1873
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Osmia (Osmia) taurus Smith, 1873 View in CoL

Taurus Orchard Mason

Notes: The first record that we could locate for this exotic species in Connecticut was collected on 25 April 2009 by R. J. Pupedis in Willimantic (Windham County). This species is becoming more widespread in Connecticut, now found in seven counties. LeCroy et al. (2020) in the mid-Atlantic states found O. taurus increasing from 2003– 2017 at a mean rate of 16.99% per year .

MELITTIDAE

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R	Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Megachilidae
Genus	Osmia

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