Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
B.C., Idaho and Mont., south to Calif., Nev., Utah, and Wyo. (B.C., Calif., Idaho, Mont., Nev., Oreg., Utah, Wash., and Wyo.).
- 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.
General Ecology
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Nests in abandoned burrows of Diadasia diminuta Cress. as well as trap-nests; uses masticated leaf material from Malva rotundifolia and Sphaeralcea coccinea cemented with resin for cell construction.
- 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.
