Trachusa (Heteranthidium) larreae (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 : 302

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1

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scientific name

Trachusa (Heteranthidium) larreae (Cockerell, 1897)
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Trachusa (Heteranthidium) larreae (Cockerell, 1897) View in CoL

[ Type: USNM; ♀ close to the Agricultural College, Las Cruces, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA; 6 May 1896] This species inhabits North American deserts. It is very abundant where Larrea tridentata occurs, on which it is a pollen specialist ( Hurd & Linsley 1975). The BBPT collected this species in the Magdalena Plains in March 2021 (7 ♂, 1 ♀), Lower Colorado Desert in June 2021 (1 ♀), and Central Desert in April 2023 (13 ♀, 13 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 210 .

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Trachusa

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