Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) occipitalis Michener, 1939

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 : 337

Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) occipitalis Michener, 1939

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Sabino Canyon , Santa Catalina Mountains , Arizona, USA; August 13, 1924]

Ashmeadiella occipitalis inhabits the xeric regions of southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. We reviewed specimens collected in BCS in the Central Desert in September 1941 (1 ♀), and Gulf Coast (15 ♀), and the Cape Mountains in October 1941 (6 ♀; CASC). The BBPT collected 11 females in the Gulf Coast in November 2020. Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 241 .