Atoposmia (Atoposmia) anthodyta (Michener, 1943)

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 : 342

Atoposmia (Atoposmia) anthodyta (Michener, 1943) *

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Lone Pine Canyon , Inyo Co., California, USA; June 11, 1937]

This species occurs in the western USA and northwestern Mexico and specializes on pollen from Penstemon Schmidel ( Fowler 2020) . Hurd & Michener (1955) suggested that the distributional range of this species included BC; however, they didn’t review material from BC. The BBPT collected one female in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in May 2022 (MABC), which confirms the prediction by Hurd & Michener (1955). See fig. 245.