Anthophora (Micranthophora) petrophila Cockerell, 1905

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 : 133

Anthophora (Micranthophora) petrophila Cockerell, 1905

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Rock Creek , Los Angeles Co., California, USA]

This species is widely distributed in the southwestern USA and northern Mexico and has been recorded in the Baja California Mountains and Chaparral ( Orr et al. 2018). This species specializes on pollen from a broad range of plant genera in the family Asteraceae , which aids in its large geographic distribution ( Orr et al. 2018). In our surveys, the BBPT collected 26 specimens (16 ♂, 10 ♀) in the Baja California Mountains in La Rumorosa and Sierra Juarez in September 2021 and 2022 and in April 2022. Voucher specimens are in MABC (8 ♂, 5 ♀), and ECOAB (8 ♂, 5 ♀). See fig. 75.