Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from managed emergent wetlands in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas

By

Stephenson, Phillip
Griswold, Terry L.
Arduser, Michael
Dowling, Ashley
Krementz, David

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-05-09

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

6

Pages

1--24

Subjects

Apoidea , Arkansas , bee , Biodiversity , emergent wetland , Mississippi Alluvial Valley , native species , range expansion , state record

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e24071
eLocator: e24071

 

Abstract

Here we present the results from a two-year bee survey conducted on 18 managed emergent wetlands in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas, USA. Sample methods included pan traps, sweep netting and blue-vane traps. We document 83 bee species and morphospecies in 5 families and 31 genera, of which 37 species represent first published state records for Arkansas. The majority of species were opportunistic wetland species; only a small number were wetland-dependent species or species largely restricted to alluvial plains.We present new distributional records for bee species not previously recorded in managed emergent wetlands and report specimens of thirty-seven species for which no published Arkansas records exist, expanding the known ranges ofCeratinacockerelli,Diadasiaenavata, Lasioglossumcreberrimum, SvastracressoniiandDieunomiatriangulifera. We also distinguish opportunistic wetland bee species from wetland-dependent and alluvial plain-restricted species.