Anthophora (Micranthophora) pachyodonta Cockerell, 1923

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 : 132

Anthophora (Micranthophora) pachyodonta Cockerell, 1923

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ San Nicolas Bay , Baja California Sur, Mexico; May 16, 1921]

Anthophora pachyodonta is a xeric species distributed in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts that specializes on pollen from plants in the family Asteraceae , especially Bebbia juncea Greene ( Orr et al. 2018) . It has been collected in BC’s Lower Colorado and Vizcaíno Deserts and in the Gulf Coast region of BCS ( Orr et al. 2018). The BBPT collected 11 specimens, five in the Gulf Coast in Mulegé City, BCS in March 2021 (4 ♂, 1 ♀), and six in the Lower Colorado Desert in May 2022 and April 2023 (4 ♀, 2 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC (3 ♀, 3 ♂), and ECOAB (3 ♂, 2 ♀). See fig. 75.