Colletes jankowskyi Bee Records from Japan with DNA Barcodes and Habitat Notes

Plazi digitized treatments document the first record of the bee species Colletes jankowskyi in Japan. The dataset includes biological notes on morphology, habitat, and flowering plant associations, along with DNA barcodes for species discrimination. It was published by Ryuki Murao and colleagues in the Journal of Melittology in 2016.

Use Cases

• Species identification and discrimination based on morphological characters described in the treatment.
• DNA barcode analysis for phylogenetic studies or species delimitation among Colletes congeners.
• Studying habitat associations and phenology based on notes about semi-natural grassland and adult activity from mid-August to mid-September.
• Analyzing plant-pollinator interactions using records of specimens collected on Lespedeza cyrtobotrya flowers.

Strengths

• Includes DNA barcode data useful for molecular species discrimination.
• Provides specific morphological characters for separating C. jankowskyi from similar species.
• Contains biological notes on habitat, phenology, and host plants.

Limitations

• Row count and file format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single taxonomic study.

Provenance

Source

Plazi treatment based on the journal article by Murao, Ryuki, Ikudome, Shuichi, Tadauchi, Osamu (2016) in Journal of Melittology.

Collection Method

Digitized treatment from a published taxonomic article.

Time Range

Collection period includes mid-August to mid-September; publication year is 2016.

Geography

Japan, with notes suggesting a relict distribution limited to semi-natural grassland.