Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from managed emergent wetlands in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas
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Stephenson, Phillip L
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Griswold, Terry L
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Arduser, Michael S
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Dowling, Ashley P G
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Krementz, David G
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Biodiversity Data Journal
2018
6
24071
24071
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e24071
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e24071
1314-2828--24071
Ptilothrix bombiformis (Cresson, 1878)
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).