Hexepeolus rhodogyne Linsley and 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 : 210

Hexepeolus rhodogyne Linsley and Michener, 1937

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ 3.22 km east of Cathedral City , Riverside Co., California, USA; April 10, 1936]

This species is primarily distributed in the deserts of the southwestern USA, and northwest Mexico. It is a brood parasite on the uncommon genus Ancylandrena Rozen (1994) . In the BCP, it has been previously recorded in the Central Desert and La Giganta Ranges in April 1985 by the INHS ( GBIF 2023). The BBPT collected one male in April 2022 in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Guadalupe Valley (MABC). Additionally, we photographed one individual in Succulent Coastal Matorral in April 2023 and uploaded it to iNaturalist platform (https://www. inaturalist.org/observations/157708019). See fig. 138.