Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837)

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

Melitoma taurea (Say, 1837)

Notes

Specimens from our study are the only Arkansas specimens we are aware of, but an Arkansas (Newton Co.) image of this species has recently been identified by JSA on bugguide.net, see https://bugguide.net/node/view/1259116. Opportunistic (Table 1: Sites 1, 3-6, 10-13, 15, 17).