Ptilothrix bombiformis (Cresson, 1878)

Stephenson, Phillip L, Griswold, Terry L, Arduser, Michael S, Dowling, Ashley P G & Krementz, David G, 2018, Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from managed emergent wetlands in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 24071-24071 : 24071

Ptilothrix bombiformis (Cresson, 1878)

Notes

Specimens from our study are the only Arkansas specimens we are aware of, but an Arkansas (Poinsett Co.) image of this species has recently been identified by JSA on bugguide.net, see https://bugguide.net/node/view/1422145. A wetlands specialist and Hibiscus oligolege ( Rust 1980), but is occasionally found in developed areas some distance from wetlands visiting flowers of ornamental Hibiscus , or cultivated okra ( Rau 1930). (Table 1: All Sites).