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Epeoloides pilosulus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Epeoloides |
| Species: | E. pilosulus
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| Epeoloides pilosulus (Cresson, 1878)
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Epeoloides pilosulus is one of only two species in the bee genus Epeoloides; it is kleptoparasitic in the nests of melittid bees of the genus Macropis. Known to exist in only a handful of localities in the northeastern United States and adjacent parts of Canada, this species is classified as Endangered by the State of Connecticut.[1]
E. pilosulus lacks the dense patches of appressed scutum hairs of the genera Triepeolus and Epeolus.[2] On the wing, the marginal cell and its apex touch the wing margin, but the cell is more abruptly truncated than in other, similar bees.[2]
- ^ Connecticut’s Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015. State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. 2015. 11 pp.
- ^ a b Droege, Sam (September 2015). The Very Handy Manual: How to Catch and Identify Bees. USGS.
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