Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) bucconis (Say, 1837)

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 : 334

Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) bucconis (Say, 1837)

[ Type: ♀ ♂ Indiana, USA; 1825–1834]

This species is broadly distributed across western North America and specializes on pollen from a number of summer-blooming plants in the family Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) . Within the BCP, Ashmeadiella bucconis was previously reported by Ayala et al. (1996). SDNHM reported one preserved specimen record collected in Chaparral ( GBIF 2023) and BBSL, one from the Baja California Mountains in La Rumorosa. The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June (11 ♀), September (2 ♀), and October 2020 (1 ♀); Chaparral in September (14 ♀), and October 2020 (3 ♀); and Lower Colorado Desert in October 2019 (6 ♀), and May 2021 (♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 237.