Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) cactorum (Cockerell, 1897)

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 : 335

Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) cactorum (Cockerell, 1897)

[ Lectotype: USNM; ♀ Santa Fé , New Mexico, USA; July 10, 1896]

Ashmeadiella cactorum has been previously reported in the Succulent Coastal Matorral , Vizcaíno Desert by BBSL , and the Pacific Islands by SDNHM ( GBIF 2023 ). We also reviewed specimens collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in April 1983 (5 ♀; SDNHM), Gulf Coast at Isla Ángel de la Guarda in May 1921 (1 ♀), and La Paz in October 1941 (1 ♀), Cape Mountains in October 1941 (2 ♀; CASC). The ECOAB team collected one male in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra Juarez in July 2013. Additionally, the BBPT collected one female in Sierra Juarez in May 2022 ( MABC). See fig. 238 .