Agapostemon femoratus Crawford, 1901

Agapostemon femoratus Crawford, 1901: 162 [♂‚ ♀].

     Lectotype ♂ [tentative]. USA, Idaho, Moscow [USNM no. 5400].

Taxonomic notes: Crawford's (1901) syntype series contained 14♂s from the USA from Washington, Wawawai, by C.V. Piper; California, Palo Alto, 27 July 1892, by Leland Stanford Jr. Univ.; Idaho, Lewiston and Moscow, by S.N. Dunning; Idaho, Moscow, Harrison, and Lewiston, by J.M. Aldrich, and 2♀s from East Washington, by R.W. Doane (from C.V. Piper); Idaho, Moscow, by J.M. Aldrich. None of these was clearly designated as the type specimen. Cockerell (1927: 157) designated a type "locality" of California, Palo Alto (27 July 1892) from Crawford's syntype series, and presumambly this designation represented only one ♂ specimen. However, Crawford (1901) did not indicate how many males were part of the materials collected on that date in Palo Alto, so one cannot assume there is no other males matching this date. In a later revision, Sandhouse (1936: 79) considered A. femoratus Crawford a synonym of A. cockerelli Crawford (as did Michener 1951: 1124), though this has not been supported in subsequent revisions (Roberts 1972: 482), Sandhouse (1936: 79) also desginated a ♂ lectotype from Idaho, Moscow [USNM no. 5400, Barcode 00536743]. However, as with Cockerell's (1927) designation, there is not information provided to distinguish this male from others in the syntype series from Moscow - there were at least two specimens collected by S.N. Dunning, and J.M. Aldrich. Though Robertson (1972) claimed to have examined the ♂ type in the USNM, he did not provide any information on the specimen, or other syntypes examined. Thus, at present it may be best to consider syntypes until a unique lectotype can be designated.

DNA Barcode Index Number (BIN): BOLD:AAB0974

This BIN shared with Agapostemon obliquus (Provancher, 1888) and Agapostemon sericeus (Forster, 1771). 

Biology:

Distribution in Canada: Criddle 1926 [BC]; Sandhouse 1936 [BC, AB]; Roberts 1972 [BC, AB], 1973 [BC]; Hurd 1979 [BC, AB]; Moure and Hurd 1987 [BC, AB]; Sheffield et al. 2014 [AB, SK]; Sheffield and Heron 2018 [BC].

Extent of Occurrence (EOO) in Canada (http://geocat.kew.org/): 

Approximate Global Extent of Occurrence (EOO) (http://geocat.kew.org/):

Index of Area of Occupancy (IAO) in Canada (http://geocat.kew.org/):

Datasets Used: GBIF.org (28 April 2023) GBIF Occurrence Download