Dianthidium (Dianthidium) pudicum (Cresson, 1879)

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 : 293

Dianthidium (Dianthidium) pudicum (Cresson, 1879)

[ Lectotype: ANSP; ♂ Nevada, USA]

Dianthidium pudicum occurs from southwestern Canada to northwestern Mexico ( Grigarick & Stange 1968). Within BC, it has been previously reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Succulent Coastal Matorra , Lower Colorado Desert , and Central Desert ( BBSL). We reviewed two females collected in Chaparral in September 1980 and the Baja California Mountains in May 1981. Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in Coastal Sage Matorral in May (1 ♀), June (3 ♀, 1 ♂), September (1 ♂), and October 2020 (1 ♂), and May 2022; Baja California Mountains in May 2022 (1 ♂); and in the Gulf Coast in March 2021 (1 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 204.