Triepeolus quadrifasciatus (Say, 1823)

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

Triepeolus quadrifasciatus (Say, 1823)

Notes

The type specimen, which is presumed lost or destroyed, was described from “Arcansa” in 1823 by Thomas Say ( Rightmyer 2008). However, the “Arcansas” (Arkansas) of that era was a much larger piece of real estate than the Arkansas of today, then including most of what is now Oklahoma. No additional specimens from Arkansas are mentioned in Rightmyer (2008), thus we consider this specimen the first documentation of the species in Arkansas. Primary host bee is Svastra atripes . Opportunistic (Table 1: Site 1).