Anthophora (Micranthophora) mortuaria Timberlake, 1937

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 : 132

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.13940036
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scientific name	Anthophora (Micranthophora) mortuaria Timberlake, 1937
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[ Holotype: AMNH; ♂ Furnace Creek , Inyo Co., California, USA; May 1, 1927]

This species is found mainly in the Mojave and SD. This species specializes on Asteraceae , specifically Pluchea sericea Nutt. ( Orr et al. 2018) . To our knowledge, the only specimens reported in BC were collected in the Lower Colorado Desert by the BBPT surveys in Mexicali valley in June 2019, and May 2021, and in Hardy River in April 2021. Voucher specimens are in ECOAB (102 ♀, 24 ♂), and MABC (3 ♀, 3 ♂). See fig. 74.

References

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