Megachile (Xanthosarus) perihirta Cockerell, 1898

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 : 330

Megachile (Xanthosarus) perihirta Cockerell, 1898 *

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Colorado Springs , Colorado, USA; Mid-July]

Megachile perihirta represents a new species record in BC. This species is widespread across North America and narrows pollen collection from plants in families Asteraceae or Fabaceae . The ECOAB team collected this species in the Chaparral near the border with the USA in July 2013 (2 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 234.