Andrena braccata Viereck 1907

Andrena braccata Viereck, 1907: 286 [287] (Connecticut lectotype designated by LaBerge, 1967). Lectotype. Female USA: Connecticut: Tolland Co.: Rockville, 23 August 1905, H. L. Viereck (USNM). Notes: This late season Asteraceae specialist has been found on goldenrods (Solidago s. l.) in Connecticut, in habitats such as powerline ROW and sandplain remnants. Its distribution in the northeast centers around Massachusetts and Connecticut, south to Gardiners Island (Ascher et al. 2014) and the tip of eastern Long Island, New York, at Montauk Beach (Suffolk County), extending northward to Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and south to Virginia, with its western range limits uncertain (LaBerge 1967).