Dianthidium (Dianthidium) simile (Cresson, 1864)

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 : 121-122

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Dianthidium (Dianthidium) simile (Cresson, 1864)
status

 

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Northeastern Pebble Bee

Notes: This bee species was reported from Connecticut as Anthidium simile in Cresson (1864a) with no additional information. It is a rarely recorded bee, especially in New England where records are widely scattered. Community science records from iNaturalist show that this species persists south along the Maine Coast to at least Cape Elizabeth in Cumberland County (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=52339&subview=map &taxon_id=452980), but there are no recent records from Massachusetts (Veit et al. 2022[“2021”]) or elsewhere in Southern New England (or New York) and the species should be considered of great conservation interest.

Genus Pseudoanthidium Friese

Reference: Litman et al. (2016); Portman et al. (2019)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Dianthidium