Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) meliloti (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 : 337

Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) meliloti (Cockerell, 1897)

[ Lectotype: USNM; ♂ Mesilla Valley , near Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA]

Ashmeadiella meliloti has been recorded all across the length of the peninsula with the exception of the Tropical Cape Region . We reviewed specimens collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral in July 1981 (1 ♀) , and June 1982 (1 ♀); Baja California Mountains in May 1981 (1 ♀) ; Central Desert in April 1982 (1 ♀) , and the Gulf Coast in August 1982 (1 ♀; SDNHM) . The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June (1 ♀) , and July 2020 (1 ♀), Chaparral in October 2020 (1 ♀) , and the Gulf Coast (1 ♀) , and the Vizcaíno Desert in March 2021 (1 ♀) . Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 241 .