Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) obliquus (Say, 1837)

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 163

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940507
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scientific name	Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) obliquus (Say, 1837)
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Treatment

[ ♂ Indiana, USA]

Epimelissodes obliquus is distributed across a vast expanse of North America. This species specializes on a few plant genera in the family Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . In the BCP, it has only been recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in Mexicali ( LaBerge 1956). See fig. 100.

References

Fowler, J. (2020) Pollen specialist bees of the western United States. Available from: https: // jarrodfowler. com / pollen _ specialist. html (accessed 12 May 2024)

LaBerge, W. E. (1956) A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I (Hymenoptera, Apidae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 37 (18), 911 - 1194. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 24549

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Genus	Epimelissodes

Specimens