Sphecodes banksi Lovell, 1909

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 : 117

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Sphecodes banksi Lovell, 1909
status

 

Sphecodes banksi Lovell, 1909 ( mandibularis group)

Banks’ Blood Bee

Notes: Veit et al. (2022[“2021”]) and Gibbs et al. (2017a) note that this species may be associated with sandy sites where its likely host Lasioglossum vierecki is present. In Connecticut, we have found both species present in bee bowls deployed on the same dates at two sandy locations.

Material examined. New London Co.: Waterford: “ Vauxhall Rd. ”, 41.41428 -72.16155, 1–13 May 2007, coll. N. Bricker & D.L. Wagner, 1 ♀, UCMS, det. J.S. Ascher GoogleMaps 2007, bee bowl, UCMS _ ENT 00023619 View Materials ; Griswold , “ CAES Research Center, 190 Sheldon Road ”, 41.56333 -71.87722, 6–20 July 2016, coll. R GoogleMaps . Durgy , 1 ♀, CAES, det. M.F. Veit and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, bee bowl, UCMS _ ENT 00075524 View Materials ; 23 July–7 August 2012, coll. R . Durgy , 1 ♀, CAES, det. M.F. Veit and re-examined by T. A. Zarrillo 2022, bee bowl, UCMS _ ENT 00075525 View Materials ; see also Zarrillo et al. (2016) .

UCMS

University of Connecticut Biodiversity Research Collections

CAES

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Sphecodes