Colletidae

Subfamily Diphaglossinae Vachal

Tribe Caupolicanini Michener

Genus Caupolicana (1 sp.)

 

Colletidae: Caupolicana electa Cresson

County Records: Highlands, Leon, Miami-Dade (Lit), Okaloosa (Lit). Also collected in Thomas County, GA.

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Locations: Archbold Biological Station; Tall Timbers Research Station.

Dates. Females: none Males: Sept. 5, 1983; Michener reports Sept.-Oct., I have collected males and females in November in Thomas Co., GA and females in October in Leon county, Florida.

Plants:

Notes: Although not endemic to Florida, this species is the only bee in the Rare and Endangered Invertebrates of Florida (Deyrup 1994). A population that existed in Miami-Dade County is believed to be extirpated. This species is restricted to sand hill regions of the southeastern United States.

Female:   femaleface.jpg (208024 bytes)     femaleside.jpg (173979 bytes)     femaletongue.jpg (152994 bytes) femaletongueclose.jpg (184490 bytes) femaletongueclose2.jpg (215899 bytes) femalewing.jpg (192378 bytes) femaletop.jpg (208912 bytes) femaleabdomentop.jpg (180087 bytes) femaleabdclose.jpg (188654 bytes) 

Male: maleface.GIF (400587 bytes) maletongue.GIF (287317 bytes) maleside.GIF (376052 bytes) maletopscutum.GIF (378251 bytes) maleabdtop.GIF (406437 bytes) maleabdtop2.GIF (357787 bytes) malegenitalia.GIF (345348 bytes) malegenitaliaside.GIF (317012 bytes)

 

Key references to Florida Caupolicana

Michener, C. D. 1966. The classification of the Diphaglossinae and North American species of the genus Caupolicana (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 46(20): 717-751.

Michener, C. D. 2000. Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA. 913 p.

Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 141, 538 p.