Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) opuntiae (Cockerell, 1897)

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 : 338

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scientific name	Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) opuntiae (Cockerell, 1897)
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Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) opuntiae (Cockerell, 1897) View in CoL

[ Type: USNM; ♀ Soledad Canyon , Organ Mountains, New Mexico, USA; May 22]

Ashmeadiella opuntiae View in CoL is widely distributed in the xeric regions of North America and specializes on the pollen from several plants in the family Cactaceae View in CoL , including Opuntia Mill. ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . Within the BCP it has been previously reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral, and Baja California Mountains by UCRC, and Chaparral by SDNHM ( GBIF 2023). We reviewed one female collected in the Chaparral in August 1962 (CASC). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in the Baja California Mountains in May 2022 (10 ♀, 6 ♂) and Lower Colorado Desert in May 2021 (7 ♀, 1 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 241.

References

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

GBIF (2023) GBIF Occurrence Download. https: // doi. org / 10.15468 / dl. jzq 6 tm