Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) sonorina Smith, 1874

Sheffield, Cory, Heron, Jennifer & Musetti, Luciana, 2020, Xylocopa sonorina Smith, 1874 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopinae) with comments on its taxonomy, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 49918-49918 : 49918

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) sonorina Smith, 1874

Xylocopa sonorina Smith, 1874 in Smith 1874: 278 [♀] Holotype ♀. HAWAII, Sandw[ich]. Isl[and]." (not Sunda Isl.; see Lieftinck (1956)) [BMNH] [presented by E.W.H. Holdsworth Esq to the British Museum under register 1864.8 as per Lieftinck (1956)].

Xylocopa varipuncta Patton, 1879 in Patton 1879: 60 [♀] [New Synonymy] Syntypes ♀. USA, Arizona, by C.V. Riley [USNM]

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: OSUC 012135 ; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; previousIdentifications: Xylocopabrasilianorumvaripunctata by Hurd '1954; Taxon: scientificName: Xylocopasonorina Smith, 1874; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Apidae; genus: Xylocopa; subgenus: Neoxylocopa; specificEpithet: sonorina; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith, 1874; Location: continent: North America; country: Canada; stateProvince: British Columbia; locality: Capilano Canyon ; verbatimLocality: Capilano Can; Identification: identifiedBy: Cory S. Sheffield; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: eventDate: 18 June 1949; verbatimEventDate: vi-18-49; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: OSUC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Presumed native to the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico ( Mawdsley 2017), and introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, French Polynesia, Samoan Islands, Java, New Zealand and likely other south Pacific islands, the Marianas Islands, and now Canada.