Calliopsis puellae

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

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

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.

References

  1. "Calliopsis puellae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Calliopsis puellae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. "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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