Peponapis (Xenopeponapis) crassidentata (Cockerell, 1949)

Parys, Katherine, Griswold, Terry, Ikerd, Harold W & Orr, Michael Christopher, 2018, New records and range extensions of several species of native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Mississippi, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 25230-25230 : 25230

Peponapis (Xenopeponapis) crassidentata (Cockerell, 1949)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: SIMRU10399 ; recordedBy: K. A. Parys; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pin; occurrenceID: urn:USDA-ARS:SIMRU:SIMRU10399; Taxon: scientificName: Peponapis (Xenopeponapis) crassidentata (Cockerell, 1949); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Apidae; genus: Peponapis; subgenus: Xenopeponapis; specificEpithet: crassidentata; scientificNameAuthorship: (Cockerell, 1949); Location: country: United States; stateProvince: Mississippi; county: Sharkey; locality: Cary ; decimalLatitude: 32.785538; decimalLongitude: -90.964959; geodeticDatum: WGS1984; Identification: identifiedBy: T. Griswold; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Bee Bowl (Blue); eventDate: 2016-8-10; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; accessRights: http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; institutionCode: USDA-ARS; collectionCode: SIMRU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Notes

This species is only known from the state of Texas within the United States, though it ranges south through México and in Central America to Costa Rica ( Hurd and Linsley 1964, Ayala and Griswold 2012). Unlike the closely related Peponapis pruinosa (Say), which is a ground nester, P. crassidentata nests in bare vertical banks of sandy soil ( Delgado-Carrillo et al. 2017). One single male specimen was collected in a blue vane trap located on the edge of a soybean field in Sharkey County Mississippi (Fig. 8).