Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897

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.6003215
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392879B-7328-AB7A-43D5-FA09FD0AF821
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897
status

Treatment

Sphecodes davisii Robertson 1897 View in CoL ( mandibularis group)

Holotype. ♂ USA, Michigan (?) (Michigan Agricultural College), 17 Apr. 1886 ( INHS 179717) = Sphecodes persimilis Lovell & Cockerell 1907

County records: Alger, Antrim, Calhoun, Ingham, Kent, Leelanau, Livingston, Oakland, Ottawa, Tuscola, Van Buren.

Notes. This is a common and widespread species, originally described from a single male specimen. It is considered a senior synonym of S. persimilis , which was described from the female. Mitchell (1960) pointed out the possible synonymy and Abrams & Eickwort (1980) considered this probable. Mike Arduser and JSA have each applied this synonymy, but its establishment was relatively obscure since it was not done as part of a published revision but rather has appeared online and implicitly in faunal checklists ( Arduser 2010; Ascher et al. 2014; Goldstein & Ascher 2016). Sphecodes davisii is a cleptoparasite of Agapostemon virescens (Fabricius) and A. sericeus (Förster) ( Abrams & Eickwort 1980).