Description
A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson), with discussion of ecological associations, distribution, and conservation status in Canada
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 139 records.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Sheffield C (2018): A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson). v1.0. Royal Saskatchewan Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/vfi8nn
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Saskatchewan Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ad4c9413-95bc-4b3c-a1e9-b7cf16f391a2. Royal Saskatchewan Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Canada; Macropis; Epeoloides; Specimen; Canada; Macropis; Epeoloides
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Geographic Coverage
This dataset covers specimens from Canada.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [41.509, -162.422], North East [70.378, -47.109] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All hosts species (i.e., Macropis) and cuckoo (i.e., Epeoloides) were identified to species.
| Species | Macropis nuda, Macropis ciliata, Epeoloides pilosulus (Macropis Cuckoo Bee) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1880-01-01 / 2014-01-01 |
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Project Data
Provides a summary of the known specimens of Macropis Cuckoo Bee, Epeoloides pilosulus, from Canada.
| Title | A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson), with discussion of ecological associations, distribution, and conservation status in Canada |
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| Funding | Epeoloides pilosulus, one of the rarest bees in North America, is a cleptoparasite of Macropis bees which themselves are uncommon oligoleges of oil-producing Lysimachia flowers. Only two specimens of the cleptoparasite have been reported from Canada since the 1960s, both from Nova Scotia. A recently collected specimen of Epeoloides pilosulus from Alberta, Canada confirms this species from that province, and greatly increases its known range in western North America. This record, and additional specimens from southern Ontario (one collected in 1978), have implications for the conservation status of this COSEWIC assessed species in Canada, which are discussed. |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Sheffield, C.S., Heron, J. 2018. A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson), with discussion of ecological associations, distribution, and conservation status in Canada. Biodiversity Data Journal
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.5886/vfi8nn |
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| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=specimen-epeoloides |