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Andrena saccata Viereck, 1904

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Scientific Name: Andrena saccata Viereck, 1904

Common Name: Andrena saccata

Taxonomy

Andrena saccata Viereck, 1904, in Viereck et al. 1904:192, 224 [♀, ♂].

     Lectotype ♀, designated by Cresson (1928: 64). USA, Oregon, Corvallis, 8 June 1898 [ANSP no. 4111]

 

Taxonomic notes: Though LaBerge (1980: 515) indicates a holotype female, it should be a lectotype (Cresson 1928: 64); Viereck et al. (1904) did not specifically select a specimen, or at least provide enough information to distinguish a single specimen from the multiple ♀s from the type locality (three dates from 1897 to 1899, the ♂‚ with no data) in the syntype series.

DNA Barcode Index Number (BIN): N/A

Biology: Kathirithamby and Taylor (2005) report this species as a host to the strepsipteran Stylops apicalis Bohart.

Distribution in Canada: Criddle et al. 1924 [BC]; LaBerge 1980 [BC]; Elwell 2012 [BC]; Sheffield and Heron 2019 [BC].

References

Viereck HL, Cockerell TDA, Titus ESG, Crawford JC, Swenk MH (1904) Synopsis of bees of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Vancouver.-III. The Canadian Entomologist 36(7): 189-196.https://doi.org/10.4039/ent36189-7

Viereck HL, Cockerell TD, Titus ES, Crawford JC, Swenk MH (1904) Synopsis of bees of Oregon. Washington, British Columbia and Vancouver.-III. The Canadian Entomologist 36(8): 221-232.https://doi.org/10.4039/ent36221-8

LaBerge WE (1980) A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part X. Subgenus Andrena. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 106(4): 395-525.http://www.jstor.org/stable/25078273

Sheffield CS, Heron JM (2019) The bees of British Columbia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 115: 44-85.https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1001/1097

Criddle N, Curran CH, Viereck HL, Buckell ER (1924) The entomological record, 1923. Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario 54: 87-102.

Cresson ET (1928) The types of Hymenoptera in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia other than those of Ezra T. Cresson. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 5: 1-90.

Kathirithamby J, Taylor SJ (2005) A new species of Halictophagus (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae) from Texas, and a checklist of Strepsiptera from the United States and Canada. Zootaxa 1056: 1-18.

Sociality: Solitary
Nesting: Ground
Pollen Specialization: Polylectic
Wintering Stage: Adult

Crop Preference: Not Available
Non Crop Preference: Eriogonum sp., Pyracantha sp., Rubus sp., Spiraea sp., Ranunculus sp., Berberis aquifolium, Ranunculus californicus, Ceanothus velutinus, Cornus occidentalis, Lupinus arboreus, Poa sp., Rubus spectabilis

Distribution: British Columbia
Ecozone: Pacific Maritime

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