Colletes clypeonitens Swenk, 1906

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 : 229

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940851
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scientific name	Colletes clypeonitens Swenk, 1906
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[ Holotype: UNSM; ♀ Los Angeles , California, USA]

This species is abundant in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico and specializes on pollen of Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville ( Fowler 2020) . It has been reported in the Lower Colorado Desert with preserved specimen records in AMNH and BBSL ( GBIF 2023). The BBPT collected this species in the Lower Colorado Desert in February 2020 (1 ♀), the Central Desert in November 2020 (1 ♂; BC), and in the Vizcaíno Desert in March 2021 (3 ♂; BCS). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 154.

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