Anthophora (Micranthophora) abroniae 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 : 129

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940014
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Anthophora (Micranthophora) abroniae Timberlake, 1937
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Anthophora (Micranthophora) abroniae Timberlake, 1937 View in CoL

[ Holotype: AMNH; ♂ Palm Springs at edge of town, California, USA; April 9, 1932]

Anthophora abroniae View in CoL is abundant in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts and is a pollen specialist on early-blooming sand verbena in the genus Abronia Juss Orr et al. (2018) View in CoL . In BC, it has been collected in the Lower Colorado Desert and in the Chaparral region ( Orr et al. 2018). The BBPT collected three females in the Lower Colorado Desert in Cerro Prieto, Mexicali in June 2021. Voucher specimens are in MABC (2 ♀), and ECOAB (1 ♀). See fig. 71.