[Pollinator] Fwd: Blue Codonopsis bee

[Peter Bernhardt]

Dear Ren:

I am sending your photos of this bee on to authorities.  My concern is that
there is not a good a good photo of the bee's head. Are we looking at a
long-tongue or short tongue bee?   Yes, sometimes members of the
familyCampanulaceae have specialized bee foragers.  For example,
specialized bees are associated with the genus Wahlenbergia in Australia.
However, was the specimen collected on true Condonopsis or that vine now
placed in the genus Eucodonopsis?

Hopefully, Dr Michener will have the box of our specimens tomorrow or
Wednesday.  Today is the National Holiday of "Labor Day" and there are no
mail deliveries.

Peter
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From: 任宗昕 <renzongxin at mail.kib.ac.cn>
Date: Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 8:10 PM
Subject: Blue Codonopsis bee
To: Michael Fizdale <maf12 at hampshire.edu>, Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu
>



Dear Prof. Bernhardt,

Do you remember the blue color Codonopsis in Lijiang? I collected one bee
from the flowers at a rainy day. It looks like this bee also use flower as
shelters, but the question is that this is a open flower.

Michael, Campulaceae always have some specialized bee species, this one may
be interesting to you. I have two more specimens of this bee I collected
last year. Some entomologists identified it as Andrena, but can't go down
to species level.

Best,

Zong-Xin


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Zong-Xin Ren, PhD

Assistant Professor

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia,
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, P. R. China
Tel: +86－871-5223534
Fax: +86－871-5217791
E-mail: renzongxin at mail.kib.ac.cn

http://renzongxinorchid.weebly.com/
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