SOME ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC SOLITARY BEES COLLECTED AT INUVIK AND TUKTOYAKTUK, NWT, CANADA (HYMENOPTERA: APOIDEA)

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Authors: Sakagami, Shôichi F., Toda, Masanori J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1986
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Inuvik; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent118395-5; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00040244

Abstract Nine species of solitary bees are recorded from a northern area of Northwest Territories: Osmia inermis from tundra at Tuktoyaktuk, and Hylaeus ellipticus , Evylaeus comagenensis , E . borealis , Sphecodes aff. pusillus , Anthidium tenuiflorae , Megachile centuncularis , M . f . frigida , and Anthophora b . bomboides from the northern limit of subarctic forest at Inuvik. All represent the northernmost records of the species. Some chorological and ecological notes are added to.