Macropis patellata Patton 1880 articles

Distribution

provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico

Vt. south to N.C., west to Nebr. and Mo. (Conn., D.C., Iowa, Md., Mass., Mich., Mo., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Pa., Vt., Va., and Wis.).

bibliographic citation: Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.

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Macropsis patellata is a solitary bee in the Melittidae family. This species is endemic to the United States with observations in Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Vermont, Michigan and Massachusetts.^[1] M. patellata is oligolectic and known to feed only on species in the primrose family such as Lysimachia ciliata.^[2] In Michigan the species has been a host for Epeoloides pilosulus.^[3]

^ NatureServe. (n.d.). Macropis patellata. Available from https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.963618/Macropis_patellata (accessed January 26, 2022).
^ DiscoverLife. (n.d.). Macropis patellata Patton, 1880. Available from https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q (accessed January 26, 2022).
^ Wood, Thomas; Killewald, Michael; Graham, Kelsey; Gibbs, Jason; Isaacs, Rufus (8 September 2019). "Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson) Rediscovered in Michigan, with Notes on the Distribution and Status of its Macropis hosts". The Great Lakes Entomologist. 52 (1). ISSN 0090-0222. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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Macropsis patellata is a solitary bee in the Melittidae family. This species is endemic to the United States with observations in Minnesota, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Vermont, Michigan and Massachusetts. M. patellata is oligolectic and known to feed only on species in the primrose family such as Lysimachia ciliata. In Michigan the species has been a host for Epeoloides pilosulus.