Sphecodes hydrangeae 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 : 118

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scientific name	Sphecodes hydrangeae Mitchell, 1956
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Treatment

Sphecodes hydrangeae Mitchell, 1956 View in CoL ( dichrous group)

Hydrangea Blood Bee

Notes: Two male paratypes collected by W. M. Wheeler in Colebrook (Litchfield County) on 3 August 1919 and 5 September 1919 are described in Mitchell (1956) and are deposited at MCZ ( MCZ: Ent :30467). There are few reports of this rare taxon by subsequent workers, although a male was recently reported in Minnesota ( Portman et al. 2023) .

Abbreviations

MCZ	Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Taxonomy

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

Specimens