Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) timberlakei Michener, 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 : 332

Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) timberlakei Michener, 1936 **

[ Type: SEMC; ♀ Altadena , California, USA; May 12, 1934]

Ashmeadiella timberlakei specializes on pollen from plants in the family Fabaceae , including but not limited to Astragalus L. and Lupinus L. ( Fowler 2020). This species represents a new record for the BCP and Mexico. We reviewed one male collected in the Chaparral 9 mi east of Ojos Negros in June 1980 ( BBSL).Additionally, the BBPT collected specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May 2021 (1 ♀), April 2022 (1 ♀), and in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra Juarez in May 2022 (1 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 236 .