Sphecodes coronus Mitchell 1956

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 : 94

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4352.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7C684128-FFA7-48AA-B395-B9C6BC39353A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6003211
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392879B-7328-AB7A-43D5-FCB4FCA7FB34
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sphecodes coronus Mitchell 1956
status

Treatment

Sphecodes coronus Mitchell 1956 View in CoL View at ENA ( mandibularis group)

Holotype. ♂ USA, North Carolina, Wake Co.: 16 Jun. 1955, on Daucus carota, T.B. Mitchell ( NMNH: 75238).

= Sphecodes carolinus Mitchell, 1956

Holotype. ♀ USA, North Carolina, Grandfather Mt. , 24 Jun. 1954, on Rubus, T.B. Mitchell ( NMNH: 76237).

County records: Alger, Arenac, Charlevoix, Dickinson, Iosco, Keweenaw, Muskegon.

Notes. The synonymy of these two names has not been well established in the literature, although S. coronus has been used to include both sexes in faunal studies ( Goldstein & Ascher 2016) and DNA barcode data support the synonymy ( Sheffield et al. 2009; Sheffield & Perron 2014).