Megachile (Sayapis) frugalis frugalis Cresson, 1872

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 : 128

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-FFBD-FFC6-FF50-5F12FEC8FCAE

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scientific name

Megachile (Sayapis) frugalis frugalis Cresson, 1872
status

 

Megachile (Sayapis) frugalis frugalis Cresson, 1872 View in CoL

Frugal Leafcutter.

Notes: This bee is generally scarce in the region, with scattered records, although it is showing up in new locations regionally on iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=52339&subview=map&tax on_id=271776). There are two specimen records from Connecticut, as well as one photo record on iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173236137), all in New Haven County .

Material examined. New Haven Co.: North Branford : “Cecarelli Farms, 186 Old Post Rd.”, 41.405 - 72.78777, 11 July 2016, coll. T. A. Zarrillo, 1 ♀, CAES, det. S. Droege 2013 and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, UCMS _ ENT 00075431 View Materials ; West Haven: “Maltby Lake, Route 34 near Orange”, 25 June 1980, coll. L. Morgan- Thompson, 1 ♂, YPM, det. R. J. McGinley and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, on flowers of Asclepias syriaca, YPM ENT 704658 GoogleMaps .

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

CAES

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

UCMS

University of Connecticut Biodiversity Research Collections

YPM

Peabody Museum of Natural History

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile