Atoposmia (Hexosmia) copelandica (Cockerell, 1908)

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 : 346

Atoposmia (Hexosmia) copelandica (Cockerell, 1908)

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Copeland Park , Boulder Co., Colorado, USA; September 4, 1907]

This species occurs in the western USA and northern Mexico and specializes on pollen from Phacelia Juss. ( Fowler 2020) . Within the BCP, it is only known in the Central Desert. We review one female collected in Cataviña in May 1965 ( CASC). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in Chapala in March 2021 (2 ♀, 1 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 247 .