Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33
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Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33 |
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Macropis patellata Patton, 1880: 33 View in CoL . ( Connecticut syntype).
Syntype. Male USA: Connecticut: New Haven Co.: “Plymouth” “Waterbury”, July-August, H. F. Bassett or W. H. Patton (lost?) .
Notes: The male syntypes noted above are also presumed lost. All records for this species in Connecticut and from Massachusetts ( Veit et al. 2022[“2021”]) are historic, although there are some recent records of the species from New Jersey ( E. Wyman pers. comm.), New York ( White et al. 2022), and Vermont ( S. Hardy pers. comm.). Macropis patellata is recognized as a species of greatest conservation need in Delaware, Massachusetts, and Maryland ( United States Geological Survey 2015) .
Genus Melitta
Reference: Snelling and Stage (1995)
Subgenus Cilissa Leach
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