Andrena (Erandrena) principalis LaBerge, 1986

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 : 55

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scientific name	Andrena (Erandrena) principalis LaBerge, 1986
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[ Holotype: INHS; ♀ Buck Meadows-Mather area, Tuolomne Co., California, US; March 28, 1971 ]

Andrena principalis is the type species for the subgenus Erandrena and specializes on pollen from Arctostaphylos Adanson ( LaBerge 1985) . This species was previously reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Ensenada, 19 mi. S. in February 1946, BC ( LaBerge 1986). The MABC team collected an additional specimen of this species (1 ♀) in Valle de Guadalupe in February 2018. See fig. 12.

References

LaBerge, W. E. (1985) A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the western hemisphere. Part XI. Minor subgenera and subgeneric key. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 111 (4), 441 - 567.

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.