Osmia (Melanosmia) odontogaster 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 : 368

Osmia (Melanosmia) odontogaster Cockerell, 1897

[ Lectotype: USNM; ♂ Olympia , Washington, USA; June 1, 1896]

Osmia odontogaster occurs along the west coast of North America from southern British Columbia, Canada to the Baja California Mountains, Mexico. We reviewed two males collected in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in June 1953 ( CASC). The BBPT collected this species in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in July 2021 (2 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 265 .