Epeolus bifasciatus Cresson, 1864
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Epeolus bifasciatus Cresson, 1864 |
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Epeolus bifasciatus Cresson, 1864 View in CoL
Two-banded Cellophane-Cuckoo
Notes: This cleptoparasitic species was first collected in Connecticut in 1922 and reported in Britton (1938). Epeolus bifasciatus was rediscovered in the state in 2021 near a planting of ground cherry ( Physalis sp. ), a host plant of its likely bee host ( Colletes latitarsis ), on an organic farm in the town of Ridgefield (Fairfield County).
Material examined. Fairfield Co.: Ridgefield : “The Hickories Eco-Type Farm, 136 Lounsbury Road”, 41.29179 -73.46268, 26 August 2021, coll. A. Bolduc, 1 ♀, CAES GoogleMaps , det. T. A. Zarrillo 2021, netted from Asclepias tuberosa, UCMS _ENT 00077624; New Haven Co.: North Haven, 6 August 1922, coll. B.H. Walden, 1 ♀, CAES, det. J.S. Ascher 2008, UCMS _ ENT 00028386 View Materials .
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