Biodiversity Data Journal : Taxonomic Paper
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Corresponding author: Elizabeth G. Reese (elizabeth.reese1@montana.edu)
Academic editor: Yasen Mutafchiev
Received: 02 Jun 2018 | Accepted: 16 Oct 2018 | Published: 30 Oct 2018
© 2018 Elizabeth Reese, Laura Burkle, Casey Delphia, Terry Griswold
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: Reese E, Burkle L, Delphia C, Griswold T (2018) A list of bees from three locations in the Northern Rockies Ecoregion (NRE) of western Montana. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e27161. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e27161
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Wild bees that were collected in conjunction with a larger study are presented as a checklist of species for the Northern Rockies Ecoregion of Montana, USA. Over the course of four field seasons (2013-2016), 281 species and morphospecies in 32 genera and five families were collected using insect nets, and identified. This paper addresses the distinct lack of studies monitoring bee species in Montana and contributes to a basic understanding of fauna in the northern Rocky Mountains.
With this study, the number of known bee species in Montana increases by at least six species, from 366 (
Apoidea, wild bees, biodiversity, pollinator, Montana, Rocky Mountains, Northern Rockies Ecoregion
Faunistic studies characterizing native pollinators are becoming more important for understanding patterns in local and regional biodiversity as species are threatened by habitat loss, climate change and other factors (
Here we present a list of bee species from three localities in the northern Rocky Mountains collected over the course of four years as part of a larger project investigating the effects of wildfire on plant-pollinator diversity (
The Northern Rockies Ecoregion (NRE) encompasses 162,746 km2 of Idaho, western Montana and northeastern Washington, and is characterized by high, rugged mountain ranges consisting of montane, alpine and subalpine ecosystems (
Characterization of three study localities in the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, USA. Values for mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, and elevation represent the mean of unburned transects within a site (
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At each locality, we established nine 25m diameter circular plots within each of four 15 hectare study blocks. Study blocks were located within previously determined wildfire perimeters. Within a block, plots were randomly stratified to meet research goals related to wildfire severity and to avoid spatial clumping of plots using a generalized random tessellation stratified (GRTS) survey design function in the R spsurvey package (
Bees were collected over four field seasons (2013-2016) beginning when plants started to bloom after snowmelt (late-May or June) and ending once most flower species had gone to seed (late-August). Collection dates for each species can be found in Supplementary Data Table 1 (Suppl. material
Bee species were identified by Elizabeth Reese, Terry Griswold, Casey Delphia, Skyler Burrows, Harold Ikerd, Michael Orr, Jason Gibbs and Karen Wright. To make determinations to the lowest possible taxonomic level we used published keys or unpublished works where these were available (Table
List of published keys used for species identification.
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Andrenidae |
Andrena |
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Panurginus |
unpublished works |
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Protandrena |
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Apidae |
Anthophora |
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Bombus |
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Ceratina |
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Diadasia |
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Epeolus |
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Eucera |
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Melecta |
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Melissodes |
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Triepeolus |
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Colletidae |
Colletes |
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Hylaeus |
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Halictidae |
Agapostemon |
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Dufourea |
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Halictus |
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Lasioglossum |
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Megachilidae |
Anthidiellum |
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Anthidium |
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Ashmeadiella |
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Chelostoma |
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Coelioxys |
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Dianthidium |
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Dioxys |
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Heriades |
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Hoplitis |
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Megachile |
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Osmia |
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Stelis |
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We collected 8011 bee specimens representing 281 species and morphospecies in 32 genera and five families between 2013 and 2016. Following are the total number of specimens by family (to avoid inflating species richness, we did not include male morphospecies in species counts because female morphospecies may have been the same species): Colletidae: 357 specimens, 2 genera, 17 species; Andrenidae: 395 specimens, 3 genera, 44 species and morphospecies; Halictidae: 1251 specimens, 4 genera, 55 species and morphospecies; Megachilidae: 2920 specimens, 12 genera, 113 species and morphospecies; Apidae: 3088 specimens, 11 genera, 52 species and morphospecies.
Though resources did not allow for a comprehensive literature search to assess new state records for all the species on this checklist, an exploratory search for 25 of the species (in no particular order) revealed no previously published records in Montana for Andrena saccata Viereck; Anthidiellum notatum robertsoni (Cockerell); Ashmeadiella meliloti (Cockerell); Ashmeadiella pronitens (Cockerell); Colletes lutzi lutzi Timberlake; and Dioxys productus (Cresson). In addition,
Because Montana spans a large area of diverse topography, landscape and climate (
There is growing evidence of declines in wild bee species diversity (