Sphecodes minor Robertson, 1898

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 : 119

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:824780E1-1CF8-4836-BD37-A8056FB4C7C7

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1458879A-FFB4-FFCF-FF50-5AECFDC8F9F5

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scientific name

Sphecodes minor Robertson, 1898
status

 

Sphecodes minor Robertson, 1898 View in CoL ( dichrous group)

Lesser Blood Bee

Notes: This species is not well known in Connecticut; however historical material has been vetted, including a specimen collected in Stafford (Tolland County) by W. E. Britton in 1905.

Material examined. Hartford Co.: Manchester: 4 August 1933, coll. unknown, 1 ♂, CAES, det. S. Droege 2008 and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, UCMS _ ENT 00029085 View Materials ; Suffield : “West Suffield”, 42.0119 -72.745 GoogleMaps , 18–19 June 2009, coll. S. Deford, 1 ♂, UNHP, det. J.S. Ascher, bee bowl, UCMS _ ENT 00038923 View Materials ; 1 ♀, UCMS, det. J.S. Ascher, UCMS _ ENT 00038924 View Materials ; New Haven Co.: New Haven : 4 July 1942, coll. “J.C.S.”, 1 ♀, CAES, J.S. Ascher 2008, UCMS _ ENT 00027859 View Materials ; Tolland Co.: Stafford : 24 August 1905, coll. W.E. Britton, 1 ♀, CAES, det. J.S. Ascher 2008, UCMS _ ENT 00027858 View Materials .

CAES

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

UCMS

University of Connecticut Biodiversity Research Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Sphecodes