Anthophora (Micranthophora) estebana Cockerell, 1923

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 : 130

Anthophora (Micranthophora) estebana Cockerell, 1923

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ San Esteban Island , Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; April 19, 1921]

Anthophora estebana occurs in the Mojave and SD and specializes on pollen from plants in the family Asteraceae , especially Bebbia juncea Greene ( Orr et al. 2018) . In BC, it is present in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Lower Colorado Desert , and Central Desert ; in BCS it has been collected in Vizcaíno Desert and Gulf Coast regions. We reviewed one female specimen collected in the Gulf Coast in Isla Ángel de la Guarda in May 1921 ( CASC). The BBPT collected specimens in the Lower Colorado Desert in October 2019 (1 ♀), Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 (1 ♀), Gulf Coast in March 2021 (1 ♂), and Central Desert in April 2023 (1 ♀, 1 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC (2 f, 1 ♂ and ECOAB (1 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 73.