Epeolus bifasciatus Cresson, 1864

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 : 89

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5586.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:824780E1-1CF8-4836-BD37-A8056FB4C7C7

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1458879A-FF9A-FFE1-FF50-5DF9FD1FFA8E

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scientific name

Epeolus bifasciatus Cresson, 1864
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Epeolus bifasciatus Cresson, 1864 View in CoL

Two-banded Cellophane-Cuckoo

Notes: This cleptoparasitic species was first collected in Connecticut in 1922 and reported in Britton (1938). Epeolus bifasciatus was rediscovered in the state in 2021 near a planting of ground cherry ( Physalis sp. ), a host plant of its likely bee host ( Colletes latitarsis ), on an organic farm in the town of Ridgefield (Fairfield County).

Material examined. Fairfield Co.: Ridgefield : “The Hickories Eco-Type Farm, 136 Lounsbury Road”, 41.29179 -73.46268, 26 August 2021, coll. A. Bolduc, 1 ♀, CAES GoogleMaps , det. T. A. Zarrillo 2021, netted from Asclepias tuberosa, UCMS _ENT 00077624; New Haven Co.: North Haven, 6 August 1922, coll. B.H. Walden, 1 ♀, CAES, det. J.S. Ascher 2008, UCMS _ ENT 00028386 View Materials .

CAES

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

UCMS

University of Connecticut Biodiversity Research Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Epeolus

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