Neolarra californica Michener, 1939

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Neolarra californica Michener, 1939

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ 8.05 km west (“north” on label) of Indio, at junction of La Quinta and Palm Springs to Indio roads, Riverside Co., California, USA; April 10, 1936]

Distributed across northern Mexico and the western USA, Neolarra californica is the only species of its genus recorded within the state of BC. We examined eight specimens, seven collected in La Giganta Ranges in April 1983 (LACM), and one in the Lower Colorado Desert in April 1939 (CASC). CARCIB team collected one specimen in the Magdalena Plains in June 2017. Additionally, the BBPT collected one female in La Giganta Ranges in March 2021 and one in Chaparral in April 2021. Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 141.