Melissodes (Eumelissodes) dentiventris Smith, 1854

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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scientific name	Melissodes (Eumelissodes) dentiventris Smith, 1854
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Melissodes (Eumelissodes) dentiventris Smith, 1854 View in CoL

Tooth-vented Longhorn

Notes: Melissodes dentiventris is relatively numerous in the Southeastern United States but is not well known from New England, where it reaches its northeastern range limit ( Mitchell 1962). There are only five historical records for this rarely-collected late-season composite specialist in Connecticut , three reported in Viereck et al. (1916) which were not available for re-examination ( Branford , New Haven County, 3 August 1904, collected by Henry W. Winkley; New Haven [“‘ Westville ”], New Haven County , 3 August 1905, collected by W. E. Britton on Veronica sp. ; Vernon [“ Rockville ”], Tolland County , 23 August 1905, collected by H. L. Viereck) and two specimen records reported below. All but one of the Connecticut records come from coastal cities, which parallels its limited distribution in Massachusetts (Veit et al. 2022[“2021”]). This species was recently documented on Tuckernut Island (Nantucket County, Massachusetts) on iNaturalist, observed on 29 August 2021 (https://www.inaturalist. org/observations/93158406) .

Material examined. New London Co.: Waterford: 11 September 1933, coll. N. Turner, sex unverified ,

UCMS, det. J.S. Ascher, UCMS _ENT 00030352, UCMS _ENT 00030353.