Andrena (Belandrena) palpalis 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 : 49

Andrena (Belandrena) palpalis Timberlake, 1951

[ Holotype: UCRC; ♀ Palm Springs, California, US; March 9, 1924 ]

LaBerge (1985) first reported this species in BCP in Valle de la Trinidad in Chaparral habitat. This species is a pollen specialist on Phacelia Juss. ( LaBerge 1985) . Specimens from the Lower Colorado Desert and Central Desert collected in March 2014 (5 ♀) are preserved at the CNIN. The BBPT collected this species at various locations within the Central Desert (BC) and the Vizcaíno Desert ( BCS) ( MABC). See fig. 7.