Habropoda excellens ( Timberlake, 1962 )

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 : 142

Habropoda excellens ( Timberlake, 1962) **

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Walker Pass , Kern Co., California, USA; September 26, 1957]

Habropoda excellens represents a new species record for Mexico and our recent record in the Baja California Mountains significantly widens its distribution range. The BBPT collected a male specimen in September 2021 within the transitional zone between the Baja California Mountains and the Lower Colorado Desert (MABC). See fig. 81.