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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e24071

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scientific name

Ptilothrix bombiformis (Cresson, 1878)
status

 

Ptilothrix bombiformis (Cresson, 1878) View in CoL View at ENA

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Ptilothrix