Megachile (Megachile) lapponica Thomson 1872

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