Dufourea australis (Michener, 1937)

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 : 274

Dufourea australis (Michener, 1937)

[Holotype: CASC; ♂ San Diego (on the mesa north-east of town), California, USA; April 1, 1934] Dufourea australis is found in the xeric regions of southwestern USA and the BCP. This species specializes on pollen from yellow Asteraceae such as Bahiopsis Kellogg , Deinandra Greene , Encelia Adans. , and Verbesina L. ( Lincoln 1980). This species was recorded in BCS in the Cape Mountains in October 1941 ( Bohart 1949). Additionally, Ayala et al. (1996) reported it in BC, but to the best of our knowledge, there are no publicly available records. See fig. 190.