Megachile sculpturalis (lat.) Is a species of large bees from the Megachilidae family. East Asia, brought to North America. Length 13-25 mm. Black bee with golden reddish hairs. [1] [2]
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Distribution
It comes from East Asia ( China , Korea , Taiwan , Japan ; Iwata 1933, Wu 2005) [3] [4] . It was first discovered in North America in 1994 in North Carolina , in 1999 in central Ohio (Mangum & Sumner 2003) [5] , in 2000 in Alabama (Kondo et al. 2000) [6] and New York (Ascher 2001 ) [7] , in 2002 - in Canada ( Ontario ; Mangum & Sumner 2003) [5] . Later found in Vermont (Richardson 2005) [8] , in the Boston area (Rykken 2007) [9] , Indiana (Indiana Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey 2006) [10] , Iowa and Kansas (Hinojosa-Díaz et al. 2005) . [1] [11]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Hinojosa-Díaz, IA The giant resin bee making its way west: first record in Kansas (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) (English) // ZooKeys. - Pensoft Publishers , 2008. - Vol. 1 . - P. 67-71 .
- ↑ Mark F. O'Brien & Julie Craves. Megachile scupturalis Smith - a new bee for Michigan (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) (English) // Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society: journal. - 2008 .-- Vol. 53 , no. 1-2 . - P. 4 . Archived August 19, 2010.
- ↑ Iwata K. Studies on the nesting habits and parasites of Megachile sculpturalis Smith (Hyme noptera, Megachilidae) (English) // Mushi. - 1933. - Vol. 6 . - P. 4-26 .
- ↑ Wu Y. (2005). Fauna Sinica: Insecta Volume 44: Hymenoptera Megachilidae. Beijing, xvi + 474 pp., +4 pls. [In Chinese, with English summary]
- ↑ 1 2 Mangum WA, Sumner S. A survey of the North American range of Megachile (Callomegachile) sculpturalis, an adventive species in North America (Eng.) // Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. - 2003. - Vol. 76 , no. 4 . - P. 658-662 .
- ↑ Kondo T., Williams ML, Minckley R. (2000). Giant resin bees! Exotic bee species makes its way from east coast to Alabama. Alabama Agricultural Experimental Station Highlights of Agricultural Research 27 (3): 5-6.
- ↑ Ascher JS Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith, a European bee new to North America, with notes on other adventive bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) (English) // Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. - 2001. - Vol. 103 , no. 1 . - P. 184-190 .
- ↑ Richardson L. Vermont's newest bee species (English) // The Newsletter of the Vermont Entomological Society. - 2005. - Vol. 49 . - P. 11 .
- ↑ Rykken J. All-taxa inspiration in Boston // The Newsletter of the Vermont Entomological Society. - 2007. - Vol. 55 . - P. 7, 11 .
- ↑ Indiana Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) Program. (2007). Indiana CAPS State Survey Committee May 30th, 2007 Meeting Minutes, 7 pp.
- ↑ Hinojosa-Díaz IA, Yáñez-Ordóñez O., Chen G., Peterson AT, Engel MS The North American invasion of the giant resin bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) (Eng.) // Journal of Hymenoptera Research. - 2005. - Vol. 14 , no. 1 . - P. 69-77 .
Literature
- Batra SWT Biology of the giant resin bee, Megachile sculpturalis Smith, a conspicuous new inmigrant in Maryland // The Maryland Naturalist. - 1998. - T. 42 , No. 1-2 . - S. 1-3 .