Ancylandrena larreae ( Timberlake, 1951 )

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 : 48

Ancylandrena larreae ( Timberlake, 1951)

[ Holotype: USNM (28559); ♀ Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California, US; April 1891 ]

Ancylandrena larreae is a xeric species and a pollen specialist on Creosote-bush ( Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville ) ( Hurd & Linsley 1975). We examined one male collected in Bahia de los Ángeles April 1973 ( EMEC).Additionally, three females were collected from the southern region of Vizcaíno Desert in March of 2021 ( MABC). See fig. 6.