Epeolus howardi Mitchell, 1962
Epeolus howardi: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/3190
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"Rare, Rare, Rare. This Epeolus howardi, a nest parasite of one of the cellophane bees in the genus Colletes. Which species of Colletes, you ask, as is more often the case than not... we don't know. This bee has only been collected a handful of times in the Mid-Atlantic states and that is about all we know. Well, actually we do know that each of the sites we are aware of are very sandy.... so the Colletes must also like sand. More people looking, that is what we need." (S. Droege, pers. comm.)

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A nest parasite of one of the cellophane bees in the genus Colletes.

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Epeolus howardi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Tribe: Epeolini
Genus: Epeolus
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E. howardi
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Epeolus howardi
Mitchell, 1962

Epeolus howardi, or Howard's cellophane-cuckoo bee, is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3][4]

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  1. ^ "Epeolus howardi Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Epeolus howardi". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ Onuferko, Thomas M. (2018). "A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae)". ZooKeys (755): 1–185. doi:10.3897/zookeys.755.23939. PMC 5953965. PMID 29769836.

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