Hesperapis (Amblyapis) arida Michener, 1936

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 : 374

Hesperapis (Amblyapis) arida Michener, 1936

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ 32.19 km south of Twenty-Nine Palms , San Bernardino Co., California, USA; April 14, 1935]

This species has been recorded in the southwestern USA and the BCP and specializes on pollen from Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville ( Fowler 2020) . Gerald Stage and Roy Snelling examined two specimens collected in the Vizcaíno Desert at Rancho el Tablón in April 1983 (personal communication with John Ascher). See fig. 270.