Megachile (Megachile) lapponica Thomson 1872 ...

• Main Authors: Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G., Isaacs, Rufus
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Megachilidae; Megachile; Megachile lapponica; Sheffield; Davidson; Bolton; Davidson Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6003377; https://zenodo.org/record/6003377

Megachile ( Megachile ) lapponica Thomson 1872 (New state record) County records: Keweenaw. Notes. This record comes from a specimen identified by S. Droege. Due to a paucity of records of this boreal species from the Eastern United States and its similarity to M . relativa , additional collections and molecular confirmation would be desirable. North American populations of this bee were called M . nivalis Friese until Sheffield et al. (2011) placed this in synonymy with M . lapponica , described from Sweden and now considered a naturally Holarctic species. Nests in logs in Saskatchewan (Peck & Bolton 1946). Specimen record: Keweenaw Co .: Isle Royale, Davidson Island, N48.1252, W88.5111, 4 Aug. 2013, S. Wilson (1 ♀ PWRC). ... : Published as part of Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, pp. 1-160 in Zootaxa 4352 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1063854 ...