Pseudomacrotera turgiceps ( Timberlake, 1954 )

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 : 121

Pseudomacrotera turgiceps ( Timberlake, 1954)

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ Palm Springs , California; May 20, 1917]

This species is distributed in California and Northern BC. In BC it has been previously recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral ( Timberlake 1954). The specimen is a female paratype and was collected in April, 1939 in Rosarito Beach. It was also collected in the Lower Colorado Desert south of San Felipe in April, 1965. We reviewed all of the reported specimens (CASC). See fig. 63.