Holcopasites insoletus (Linsley, 1942)

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 : 199

Holcopasites insoletus (Linsley, 1942) *

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Tex Canyon 1,524–1,829 mts elev., Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA; September 16, 1927]

Holcopasites insoletus is a brood parasite of bees in the subfamily Panurginae ( Michener 2007) . This species represents a new record for the BCP. We examined two females and one male collected in La Giganta Ranges at Vic. Est. Microondas “Ligui”, 48 km S Loreto in September 1977 (LACM). See fig. 128.