Megachile (Litomegachile) lippiae Cockerell, 1900

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 : 317

Megachile (Litomegachile) lippiae Cockerell, 1900

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ La Cueva, Organ mountains , New Mexico, USA]

Megachile lippiae is widely distributed in Mexico and the USA. We examined one male collected in the Baja California Mountains in March 1967 ( EMEC). The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 (2 ♀) , Chaparral in August 2020 (1 ♀), Baja California Mountains in August 2020 (1 ♂) , and May 2022 (1 ♂); and Gulf Coast in March 2021 (1 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 224 .