Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundata (Fabricius 1787)

Gibbs, Jason, Ascher, John S., Rightmyer, Molly G. & Isaacs, Rufus, 2017, The bees of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), with notes on distribution, taxonomy, pollination, and natural history, Zootaxa 4352 (1), pp. 1-160 : 108

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7C684128-FFA7-48AA-B395-B9C6BC39353A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6003357

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundata (Fabricius 1787)
status

 

Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundata (Fabricius 1787) View in CoL View at ENA

County records: Alger, Barry, Cass, Houghton, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Kalkaska, Kent, Lake, Leelanau, Mecosta, Oakland, Washtenaw, Wayne, Wexford.

Notes. Exotic. The nesting biology has been well studied as M. rotundata is actively managed for alfalfa pollination ( Hurd 1979; Pitts-Singer & Cane 2011). It was found in abundance in trap-nests placed on MSU campus, East Lansing, Michigan (JG, pers. obs.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

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