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Leafcutter and Mason Bees of the Genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Canada and Alaska1
CJAI 18 November 29, 2011
doi:10.3752/cjai.2011.18
Cory S. Sheffield*2, Claudia Ratti*, Laurence Packer*, Terry Griswold**
*Department of Biology, York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 coryshefield@yahoo.ca; cratti@yorku.ca; xeromelissa@mail.com. **USDA-ARS Bee Laboratory, Utah State Univ., Natural
Resources Biology Bldg. Logan, UT 84322 Terry.Griswold@ars.usda.gov.
1This paper is contribution #12 from the Canadian Pollination Initiative. 2Corresponding Author.
Acknowledgements
We thank Sue Westby (retired), Agriculture and Agri-
Food Canada, Kentville, NS; John Ascher, American
Museum of Natural History, NY; Sam Droege, USGS
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Beltsville, MD;
Felix Sperling, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB;
Steve Marshall, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON;
John Huber, Andy Bennett, and Louise Dumouchel,
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, ON;
Elizabeth Elle, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC for providing specimens for study. Thanks also to Roy
Larimer, Visionary Digital, VA for advice and assistance
with imaging, and to members of the Packer lab, York
University, especially Lincoln Best and Nicholai de
Silva, for providing additional specimens from Canadian
locations, and Miriam Richards, Brock University, St.
Catharines, ON for helpful comments on earlier drafts of
the key. Additional thanks to Steve Marshall and Sheila
Dumesh for use of photographs, and for encouragement
and support throughout this study. DNA barcoding
was funded by the Canadian Barcode of Life Network
from Genome Canada (through the Ontario Genomics
Institute), NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada) and other sponsors listed
at www.BOLNET.ca. Funding for CSS was provided by
the NSERC-CANPOLIN Network.
Abstract | Introduction | Key to Genera | Species | Acknowledgements | References | PDF |
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