Townsendiella rufiventris Linsley, 1942

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 : 216

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940779
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scientific name	Townsendiella rufiventris Linsley, 1942
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Townsendiella rufiventris Linsley, 1942 View in CoL

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Palm Springs , Riverside Co., California, USA; March 26, 1932]

Townsendiella rufiventris View in CoL has been recorded in Arizona, Nevada, and California in the US, as well as in BC, Mexico. In BC, it has been reported in the Central Desert ( Orr & Griswold 2015). Bees in the genus Conanthalictus View in CoL are the recorded hosts of this brood parasite ( Rozen &McGinley 1991, Orr & Griswold 2015). See fig. 142.

References

Orr, M. C. & Griswold, T. L. (2015) A review of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Townsendiella (Apidae, Nomadinae, Townsendiellini), with the description of a new species from Pinnacles National Park. ZooKeys, 546, 87 - 104. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 546.6443

Rozen Jr., J. G. & McGinley, R. J. (1991) Biology and larvae of the cleptoparasitic bee Townsendiella pulchra and nesting biology of its host Hesperapis larreae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). American Museum Novitates, 3005, 1 - 11.