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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935538
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scientific name	Andrena (Erandrena) principalis LaBerge, 1986
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Andrena (Erandrena) principalis LaBerge, 1986 View in CoL

[ 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.