Macrotera (Macroteropsis) arcuata ( Fox, 1893 )

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 : 83

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935746
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scientific name	Macrotera (Macroteropsis) arcuata ( Fox, 1893 )
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Macrotera (Macroteropsis) arcuata ( Fox, 1893) View in CoL

[ Lectotype: USNM; ♂ Calmalli Mines , Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; April 1889]

Macrotera arcuata View in CoL specializes on pollen from Sphaeralcea A. St. View in CoL -Hil. ( Fowler 2020). This species is widely distributed in the PCB with records in both states.There are records in the Succulent Coastal Matorral, Central Desert, Vizcaíno Desert, La Giganta Ranges, Gulf Coast, Sarcocaulescent Shrubland and Cape Mountains ( Timberlake 1954). We reviewed 19 specimens (11 ♀, 8 ♂) from different localities the BCP (CASC), and one male preserved at CNIN (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 34.

References

Fowler, J. (2020) Pollen specialist bees of the western United States. Available from: https: // jarrodfowler. com / pollen _ specialist. html (accessed 12 May 2024)

Fox, W. J. (1893) Report on some Mexican Hymenoptera, principally from Lower California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 2, 4, 1 - 25.

Timberlake, P. H. (1954) A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) Part I. University of California Publications in Entomology, 9 (6), 345 - 432.

Abbreviations

USNM	USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History