Osmia (Melanosmia) obliqua White, 1952

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 : 367

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FEA6-8B01-0598-F94BFB85934F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Osmia (Melanosmia) obliqua White, 1952
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[ Holotype: SEMC; ♂ Tetley’s Mountain Camp , San Bernardino Mountains, California, USA; May 16, 1936]

This species occurs in western North America from southern British Columbia, Canada to BC, Mexico and specializes on pollen from Astraglus L., Lotus L., and Trifolium L. ( Fabaceae ) ( Fowler 2020). Within BC, this species has only been recorded in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in June 1953 by BBSL. See fig. 264.