Melitta (Cilissa) americana (Smith, 1853)

Zarrillo, Tracy A., Stoner, Kimberly A. & Ascher, John S., 2025, Biodiversity of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in Connecticut (USA), Zootaxa 5586 (1), pp. 1-138 : 135

Melitta (Cilissa) americana (Smith, 1853)

Cranberry Blunt-horn

Notes: This species has been collected from a host plant, American cranberry ( Vaccinium macrocarpon ), in Connecticut on 10 and 25 July 1985 in East Haddam (Middlesex County) in a fen at the north end of Lake Hayward by F. Campbell, and 10 and 13 July 2009 near a wetland in the Pachaug State Forest in Voluntown (New London County) by C. T. Maier. Although this species was reported from the Finger Lakes Region of New York State by White et al. (2022), this species is not confirmed from anywhere in New York, and the Finger Lakes records surely pertain instead to Melitta eickworti Snelling and Stage, 1995 , which has a type locality of, “South Hill Preserve, vicinity of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York ” and was named in honor of Cornell Professor George Eickwort.