Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) erema Michener, 1939

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 332

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scientific name	Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) erema Michener, 1939
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Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) erema Michener, 1939 View in CoL *

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ west side of Westgard Pass , Inyo Co., California, USA; June 15, 1937]

Ashmeadiella erema specializes on pollen from several plants in the family Fabaceae , including Dalea L., Hedysarum L., and Lupinus L. ( Fowler 2020). This represents a new species record for the BCP. The BBPT collected one female in Sierra Juarez in May 2022 (MABC). See fig. 235.

References

Fowler, J. (2020) Pollen specialist bees of the western United States. Available from: https: // jarrodfowler. com / pollen _ specialist. html (accessed 12 May 2024)

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Megachilidae
Genus	Ashmeadiella

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