Leiopodus Smith, 1854

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 : 225

Genus Leiopodus Smith, 1854

Leiopodus singularis (Linsley & Michener, 1937) *

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Albuquerque , New Mexico, USA; September 1–3, 1935]

This species is distributed from Guatemala to California, USA. It is a brood parasite in the nests of bees in the tribe Emphorini Michener (2007) . Leiopodus singularis represents a new species record for the BCP. The CARCIB team collected the first record for BCS in the Magdalena Plains in the Municipality of La Paz in April 2019. Additionally , the BBPT collected one female in May 2020 and one male in May 2022 in the Coastal Sage Matorral in BC ( MABC). See fig. 149 .