Kuhlman Marirose, Burrows Skyler
MPG Ranch, Florence, MT, United States of America.
Bee Biology and Systematics Lab, Logan, UT, United States of America.
Biodivers Data J. 2017 Mar 30(5):e11506. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e11506. eCollection 2017.
Here we present preliminary results from the first three years of a long-term bee survey conducted at a 3,840-ha private conservation property in the northern Sapphire Mountains and Bitterroot River Valley, and a pilot study at an associated 80-ha property in the Swan River Valley, Missoula County, Montana, USA. The survey includes hand-net, bowl-trap, and blue-vane trap collections. The resulting checklist comprises 229 bee species and morphospecies within 5 families, 38 genera and 91 subgenera. Of the total species in the list, 34 of them represent first state records Montana. This survey expands the number of bee species recorded in Montana to 366. Included in these species is Megachile (Eutricharaea) apicalis Spinola, showing a range expansion for this introduced bee.
We present new distributional records for 34 bee species, including Megachile (Eutricharaea) apicalis Spinola, an introduced bee that was discovered to be resident in North America in 1984 in Santa Barbara County, California. This species has since expanded its range in the across the west, but had not been previously recorded in Montana.
在此，我们展示了在美国蒙大拿州米苏拉县蓝宝石山脉北部和比特鲁特河谷一处3840公顷的私人保护地进行的长期蜜蜂调查头三年的初步结果，以及在天鹅河谷一处相关的80公顷土地上开展的一项试点研究的结果。该调查包括使用手网、碗诱捕器和蓝叶诱捕器进行采集。最终的名录包含5个科、38个属和91个亚属中的229种蜜蜂物种及形态种。在该名录的所有物种中，有34种是蒙大拿州的首次记录。这项调查将蒙大拿州记录的蜜蜂物种数量增加到了366种。这些物种包括尖顶切叶蜂（Megachile (Eutricharaea) apicalis Spinola），这表明这种引入的蜜蜂分布范围有所扩大。
我们展示了34种蜜蜂的新分布记录，包括尖顶切叶蜂（Megachile (Eutricharaea) apicalis Spinola），这种引入的蜜蜂于1984年在加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉县被发现已在北美定居。此后，该物种在西部的分布范围不断扩大，但此前在蒙大拿州尚未有记录。
