Andrena (Derandrena) vandykei Cockerell, 1936

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 : 51

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scientific name	Andrena (Derandrena) vandykei Cockerell, 1936
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Andrena (Derandrena) vandykei Cockerell, 1936 View in CoL

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ Cypress Ridge, Marin Co., California, USA; April 6, 1921 ]

This species is found in the CFP and is an early-flying spring species that specializes on pollen from Arctostaphylos Adans. (Ribble 1967) . There is a historical record from the Coastal Sage Matorral collected at 19.1 mi. south of Ensenada ( Ribble 1968). The BBPT collected 12 specimens (6 ♀, 6 ♂) in the Chaparral at Rancho Ojai in March 2016, one female from Piedras Gordas in May 2021, and one male from Rancho Concepción in April 2023 ( MABC; ECOAB). See fig. 8.

References

Ribble, D. W. (1968) Revisions of two subgenera of Andrena: Micrandrena (Ashmead) and Derandrena, new subgenus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Bulletin of The University of Nebraska State Museum, 8 (5), 237 - 394.