A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson)

Cory Sheffield1

1 Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2340 Albert Street, S4P 2V7, Regina, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Cory Sheffield (cory.sheffield@gov.sk.ca)

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Resource Citation

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 https://doi.org/10.5886/vfi8nn

Abstract

A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson), with discussion of ecological associations, distribution, and conservation status in Canada

Keywords: Occurrence, Canada, Macropis, Epeoloides, Specimen, Canada, Macropis, Epeoloides

Project details

Project title: A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson), with discussion of ecological associations, distribution, and conservation status in Canada
Personnel: Cory Sheffield
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.

Data published through GBIF: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=specimen-epeoloides

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All hosts species (i.e., Macropis) and cuckoo (i.e., Epeoloides) were identified to species.
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Macropis nuda, Macropis ciliata, Epeoloides pilosulus
Common names: Macropis Cuckoo Bee

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This dataset covers specimens from Canada.
Coordinates: 41°30'30.88''N and 70°22'40.27''N Latitude; 162°25'18.75''W and 47°6'33.75''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1880 - 2014

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive A new western Canadian record of Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=specimen-epeoloides
Publication date of data: 2018-04-10
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-04-04
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
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