Xylocopa (Xylocopoides) virginica virginica (Linnaeus, 1771)

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 : 99

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5586.1.1

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scientific name

Xylocopa (Xylocopoides) virginica virginica (Linnaeus, 1771)
status

 

Xylocopa (Xylocopoides) virginica virginica (Linnaeus, 1771) View in CoL

Eastern Carpenter

Notes: Records for this species in Connecticut span from 1900–2023, yet most of the records (about 79%) were collected after the year 2000. Although X. virginica virginica is considered to be a “pest” because of its tunneling nesting behavior in wood, it is known to be a valuable pollinator of agricultural crops such as watermelon, musk melon, and cucumber (Winfree et al. 2008).

COLLETIDAE

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Xylocopa