Andrena (Scrapteropsis) kalmiae Atwood, 1934

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 : 72

Andrena (Scrapteropsis) kalmiae Atwood, 1934

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Notes: LaBerge (1971) reported a single female collected on 26 May 1894 at the Hatch Experiment Station in Connecticut (likely referring to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven County, as the facility in Tolland County was called the Storrs Agricultural College at that time), the basis for our listing of New Haven as a probable county for this species. The only other records of this species in Connecticut are reported in Wagner e t al. (2019) from powerline ROW in Ellington ( Tolland County ) and South Windsor ( Hartford County ). This Kalmia specialist ( LaBerge 1986b) has never been reported from New York State. It seems to be a regional specialty mostly or entirely restricted to New England and eastern Canada.

Material examined. Hartford Co.: South Windsor : 41.871 -72.519, 28 May 2017, coll. M.F. Veit, 1 ♂, CAES, det. M.F. Veit and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, UCMS _ ENT 00082289 ; Tolland Co.: Ellington : 41.908 -72.508, 15 June 2017, coll. M.F. Veit, 1 ♀, CAES, det. M.F. Veit and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, UCMS _ ENT 00082288 .