Melissodes (Eumelissodes) subillatus LaBerge, 1961

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 : 87

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

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scientific name

Melissodes (Eumelissodes) subillatus LaBerge, 1961
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Melissodes (Eumelissodes) subillatus LaBerge, 1961 View in CoL

Echinacea Longhorn

Notes: This specialist of composites was not listed in the early Connecticut checklists (Britton 1920; Britton 1938; Viereck et al. 1916) as it had not yet been described. However, there are two historical specimens of M. subillatus determined by LaBerge at MCZ collected in Colebrook (Litchfield County) by W. M. Wheeler with no verbatim date. We have records of other species collected by Wheeler in the period spanning 1911 to 1934; therefore, M. subillatus was collected in Connecticut earlier than reported in Table 2 although the exact year is unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Melissodes