Calliopsis puellae

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Calliopsis puellae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Andrenidae
Tribe: Calliopsini
Genus: Calliopsis
Species:
C. puellae
Binomial name
Calliopsis puellae
(Cockerell, 1933)

Calliopsis puellae, the desert-dandelion nomadopsis, is a species of bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Central America and North America. [1] [2] [3]

The species' type specimen was collected by Wilmatte Porter Cockerell and her great-niece, Lelah Milene Porter (1927-2001). [4] It is now at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. [4] The species was named (as Spinoliella puellae) by Wilmatte's husband, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, who wrote: [5]

The name S. puellae commemorates the very little girl who helped my wife to collect the specimens.

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References

  1. "Calliopsis puellae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Calliopsis puellae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. 1 2 "Occurrence Detail 1264846624". GBIF . Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. Cockerell, Theodore Dru Alison (1937). "Bees collected at Borego, California, by Wilmatte P. Cockerell & Milene Porter". The Pan-Pacific Entomologist: 25-26.

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