Andrena (Diandrena) malacothricidis Thorp, 1969

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 : 53

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935530
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scientific name	Andrena (Diandrena) malacothricidis Thorp, 1969
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Andrena (Diandrena) malacothricidis Thorp, 1969 View in CoL

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Simmler, 16.1 km W., San Luis Obispo Co., California, US; May 5, 1962 ]

As the name suggests, Andrena malacothricidis specializes on pollen primarily from Malocothrix DC. in the family Asteraceae (Thorp 1969) . This species inhabits the CFP in California, USA and BC, Mexico. Within BC, this species was first reported by Hurd (1979) and confirmed by Ayala et al. (1996).