''Megachile ericetorum'' is a species of

bee Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamil ...

in the family

Megachilidae Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees. Characteristic traits of this family are the restriction of their pollen-carrying structure (called a '' scopa'') to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclu ...

. It was described by Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier in 1841.

References

Ericetorum Insects described in 1841 Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier {{Megachile-stub