Stelis (Dolichostelis) louisae Cockerell, 1911

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 : 122

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-FFBB-FFC0-FF59-5D7BFE09FBFD

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Stelis (Dolichostelis) louisae Cockerell, 1911
status

 

Stelis (Dolichostelis) louisae Cockerell, 1911 View in CoL

Louisiana Painted-Dark Bee

Notes: This highly recognizable cleptoparasitic species has 37 photo observations from Connecticut on iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=49&subview=table&taxon_id=313243), whereas only six physical specimens have been located and examined.

Subgenus Stelis Panzer

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Stelis

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