Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) similis Cresson, 1865

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 : 194

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940667
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scientific name	Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) similis Cresson, 1865
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Exomalopsis (Exomalopsis) similis Cresson, 1865 View in CoL

[ Holotype: ANSP; ♀ Cuba]

This species is distributed across Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Timberlake (1980b) reported E. similis in BCS. Eight females collected in 1973 in the Gulf Coast near La Paz are preserved in the BBSL ( GBIF 2023). Given the complexity of its taxonomy and the potential for species complexes and specimen misidentifications, a revision of this genus is needed. See fig. 125.