Anthophora (Micranthophora) curta Provancher, 1895

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.13940026
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FF48-8AEF-0599-F9C3FD3C9356
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Anthophora (Micranthophora) curta Provancher, 1895
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Anthophora (Micranthophora) curta Provancher, 1895 View in CoL

[ Lectotype: ULQC; ♀ Los Angeles , California, USA]

Anthophora curta View in CoL is widely distributed in the southwestern USA and northern Mexico ( Orr et al. 2018), and is one of the most abundant bee species of the BCP. This species specializes on the pollen from a broad number of hosts in the family Asteraceae ( Orr et al. 2018) View in CoL . Preserved specimens from the BCP are vouchered in many collections including: BBSL, LACM, CSCA, CASC, SEMC, ASUHIC, TAMU ( GBIF 2023; SCAN 2023). We examined 16 specimens (9 ♀, 7 ♂) from CASC. This species has been recorded in all ecoregions of the BCP during this project fieldwork with a wide foraging season from March to November and specimens are vouchered at MABC, and ECOAB (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 72.