Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) rufipes Titus, 1904

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 : 340-341

Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) rufipes Titus, 1904

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ San Diego Co., California; 30 Aug 30, 1891]

This species occurs in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Within the BCP , it has been previously recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral , Lower Colorado Desert , Vizcaíno Desert , Gulf Coast, and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland by BBSL, UCRC , and SDNHM ( GBIF 2023 ). We reviewed four females collected in the Lower Colorado Desert and the Gulf Coast in Puerto Refugio in June 1921 ( CASC). The CARCIB team collected four females in the Vizcaíno Desert in July , September, October 2016, and June 2017. Furthermore, the BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April 2022 (5 ♂, 4 ♀), Lower Colorado Desert in May 2022 (1 ♀), and Gulf Coast (3 ♀), and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland in March 2021 (2 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC , and ECOAB. See fig. 242. Ashmeadiella (Ashmeadiella) sonora Michener, 1939

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ Guaymas , Sonora, Mexico; April 6, 1921]

Ashmeadiella sonora occurs in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA. Within the BCP , it has been previously recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert, Gulf Coast , Vizcaíno Desert by BBSL , and Magdalena Plains and Sarcocaulescent by TAMU ( GBIF 2023 ). We reviewed a female collected in the Central Desert in Sierra de San Francisco in October 1997 ( BBSL). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in the Lower Colorado Desert in May 2021 (1 ♀) and La Giganta Ranges in March 2021 (5 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC , and ECOAB. See fig. 242 .