Coelioxys (Boreocoelioxys) porterae Cockerell, 1900

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 : 124

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

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scientific name

Coelioxys (Boreocoelioxys) porterae Cockerell, 1900
status

 

Coelioxys (Boreocoelioxys) porterae Cockerell, 1900 View in CoL

Porter’s Sharptail

= Coelioxys dubitata var. melanopoda Viereck, 1917: 747 View in CoL (Connecticut holotype).

Holotype. Male USA: Connecticut: New Haven Co.: New Haven , 17 June 1905, ( USNM).

Notes: The first known record from Connecticut was a male collected by H. L. Viereck from red raspberry ( Rubus strigosus ) on 17 June 1905 ( USNM ENT 00536891), reported as a “new variety” in Viereck et al. (1916). Coelioxys porterae was rediscovered in the state 102 years later at the Adder Reservoir in Middletown (Middlesex County) by D. L. Wagner, with subsequent detections in five towns (Middlesex County: Westbrook; New Haven County: North Branford, Guilford; New London County: Montville).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

ENT

Ministry of Natural Resources

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Coelioxys