Osmia (Melanosmia) nigrobarbata 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 : 366

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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scientific name	Osmia (Melanosmia) nigrobarbata Cockerell, 1897
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Osmia (Melanosmia) nigrobarbata Cockerell, 1897 View in CoL

[ Holotype: UCMC; ♀ Claremont , California, USA]

Osmia nigrobarbata is one of the most abundant Osmia species in the CFP in BC and specializes on pollen from plants in the family Fabaceae including Astragalus L., Lotus L., and Lupinus L. ( Fowler 2020). It has been previously recorded in the Chaparral and Baja California Mountains in Sierra Juarez by BBSL. The BBPT collected this species in Coastal Sage Matorral in April 2022 (1 ♀), Chaparral in May 2021 (1 ♂), and Baja California Mountains in May 2022 (12 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 264.