Sphecodes townesi Mitchell, 1956

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 : 120

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scientific name	Sphecodes townesi Mitchell, 1956
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Treatment

Sphecodes townesi Mitchell, 1956 View in CoL ( mandibularis group)

Townes’ Blood Bee

Notes: This species is likely under-recorded due to its similarity to Sphecodes levis Lovell and Cockerell. There are two additional specimen records from Litchfield County that we accept but were unable to confirm ourselves.

Material examined. Windham Co.: Ashford: 18 June 1936, coll. N. Turner, CAES, det. J.S. Ascher 2008,

UCMS _ENT 00030532.

Abbreviations

CAES	Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station
UCMS	University of Connecticut Biodiversity Research Collections

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Halictidae
Genus	Sphecodes

Specimens