Megachile (Megachile) montivaga Cresson 1878

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 : 110

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6003379

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392879B-7318-AB4A-43D5-FDBAFEC7FCE5

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scientific name

Megachile (Megachile) montivaga Cresson 1878
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Megachile (Megachile) montivaga Cresson 1878 View in CoL View at ENA

County records: Allegan, Baraga, Barry, Berrien, Cass, Dickinson, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Keweenaw, Livingston, Marquette, Mecosta, Menominee, Ontonagon, Schoolcraft, Van Buren.

Notes. Megachile montivaga nests in plant stems, including Cirsium ( Orr et al. 2015) , Helianthus ( Hicks 1926) , Rhus ( Rau 1934) , and Verbascum ( Hicks 1926) , and uses flower petals for nest construction, a trait correlated with reduced cutting edges of its mandibles. Trap-nesting described from Kansas ( Baker et al. 1985) and Missouri (1934).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Megachilidae

SubFamily

Megachilinae

Tribe

Megachilini

Genus

Megachile

SubGenus

Megachile

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