Andrena (Melandrena) cryptanthae Timberlake, 1951

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 : 58

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scientific name	Andrena (Melandrena) cryptanthae Timberlake, 1951
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Andrena (Melandrena) cryptanthae Timberlake, 1951 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ San Bernardino Co., California, US ]

Andrena cryptanthae is named for the plant for which it specializes on the pollen from, Cryptantha Lehm. ex. G.Don. (Thorp 1987). This species has been historically collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral and in the Baja California Mountains at Sierra San Pedro Mártir, BC ( LaBerge 1986). The BBPT collected five females and two males in Chaparral habitat at Rancho La Concepción in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in April 2023 ( MABC). See fig. 13.

References

LaBerge, W. E. (1986) A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part XII. Subgenera Leucandrena, Ptilandrena, Scoliandrena and Melandrena. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 112 (3), 191 - 248.

Timberlake, P. H. (1951) New species of Anthophora from the western United States (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 59 (1), 51 - 62.

Abbreviations

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