Osmia (Helicosmia) coloradensis Cresson, 1878

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 : 360

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scientific name	Osmia (Helicosmia) coloradensis Cresson, 1878
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Osmia (Helicosmia) coloradensis Cresson, 1878 View in CoL

[ Lectotype: ANSP; ♀ Colorado, USA]

Osmia coloradensis View in CoL is broadly distributed throughout North America and specializes on a broad range of plant genera in the family Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . This species is abundant in BC, where it was previously recorded in the Succulent Coastal Matorral by LACM and Central Desert by BBSL. The BBPT expanded its known habitats by collecting this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May (2 ♀), and June 2020 (2 ♀), and April 2022 (3 ♀), Chaparral in May 2022 (2 ♀), and Central Desert in March 2021 (1 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 257.

References

Cresson, E. T. (1878) Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 7, 61 - 136. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 25076368

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