Anthophora (Micranthophora) exigua Cresson, 1879

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 : 131

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940030
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FF4A-8AEC-0599-F872FEAA94DE
treatment provided by	Plazi (2024-10-11 15:19:45, last updated by Guilherme 2024-10-16 15:40:08)
scientific name	Anthophora (Micranthophora) exigua Cresson, 1879
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Anthophora (Micranthophora) exigua Cresson, 1879 View in CoL

[ Lectotype (Cresson, 1916): ANSP; ♀ Nevada, USA]

Anthophora exigua View in CoL occurs in western North America and broadly specializes on pollen from plants in the family Asteraceae ( Orr et al. 2018) View in CoL . Additionally, this species was reported in BC by Ayala et al. (1996). As far as we know there are no records from the BCP publicly available, however Orr et al. (2018) suggests this species should be found in BC.

References

Ayala, R., Griswold, T. L. & Yanega, D. (1996) Apoidea (Hymenoptera). In: Llorente, J., Garcia- Aldrete, A. N. & Gonzalez, E. (Eds.), Biodiversidad Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico. 27. UNAM-CONABIO, Mexico, D. F., pp. 423 - 464.

Orr, M. C., Pitts, J. P. & Griswold, T. L. (2018) Revision of the bee group Anthophora (Micranthophora) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with notes on potential conservation concerns and a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa, 4511 (1), 1 - 193. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4511.1.1