Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) californica (Ashmead, 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 : 336

Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) californica (Ashmead, 1897)

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ Los Angeles , California, USA]

Ashmeadiella californica occurs in the western USA and the BCP, Mexico. Within the BCP, this species has been previously reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral , Succulent Coastal Matorral and Lower Colorado Desert by BBSL and UCRC. The BBPT collected specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May (2 ♀) , and September 2022 (1 ♀); Chaparral in September (4 ♀) , and October 2020 (4 ♀); Central Desert (1 ♀) , and the Gulf Coast (1 ♀) in BCS in March 2021. Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 238 .