Habropoda pallida (Timberlake, 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 : 143

Habropoda pallida (Timberlake, 1937)

[ Holotype: AMNH; ♀ Palm desert 4.83 km east of Edom, Riverside Co., California, USA; March 8, 1936]

This species is primarily distributed in sand dune habitats of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts , the Arizona Plateau , California and BC. Habropoda pallida specializes on pollen from several plants in Fabaceae ( Fowler 2020) . We examined four specimens (2 ♀, 2 ♂) collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 1954, and November 1975 ( BBSL), three females collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 1962 and March 1973 one female collected in the Vizcaíno Desert ( EMEC), one female collected in the Vizcaíno Desert in March 1981 ( SDNHM), and one female reported only for the BC state ( CASC). We further document its presence by collecting specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April of 2021 (3♀, 2 ♂) and in the Coastal Sage Matorral in 2023 (4♀, 2 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC (6 ♀, 3 ♂), and ECOAB (1 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 83.