First record of the orchid bee Euglossa imperialis Cockerell, 1922 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossina) in Mato Grosso do Sul state, midwestern Brazil

Jessica Amaral Henrique; Ana Isabel Sobreiro; Valter Vieira Alves-Júnior

doi:10.15560/14.6.1059

Check List 14(6): 1059-1064, doi: 10.15560/14.6.1059

First record of the orchid bee Euglossa imperialis Cockerell, 1922 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossina) in Mato Grosso do Sul state, midwestern Brazil

Jessica Amaral Henrique^‡, Ana Isabel Sobreiro^§, Valter Vieira Alves-Júnior^‡

‡ Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil§ Federal University of Grande Dourados, Lavras, Brazil

Corresponding author: Jessica Amaral Henrique ( jessica.ufgd@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Filippo Di Giovanni

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Henrique JA, Sobreiro AI, Alves Júnior VV (2018) First record of the orchid bee Euglossa imperialis Cockerell, 1922 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossina) in Mato Grosso do Sul state, midwestern Brazil. Check List 14(6): 1059-1064. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.6.1059

Abstract

The occurrence of Euglossa imperialis Cockerell, 1922 is recorded for the first time in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This paper extends the distribution of the species by about 800 km west of the São Paulo state, its nearest record.

Keywords

Bait trap; Cerrado domain; Neotropical region; range extension