Andrena (Hesperandrena) escondida Cockerell, 1938

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 : 57

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.13935544
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scientific name	Andrena (Hesperandrena) escondida Cockerell, 1938
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Andrena (Hesperandrena) escondida Cockerell, 1938 View in CoL

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ Rancho Escondido , California, US; March 31 ]

This species is a pollen specialist on plants in the family Asteraceae Layia Hook. & Arn. ex. DC. LaBerge and Thorp (2005). Within the BCP, Andrena escondida occurs in BC in the Coastal Sage Matorral and Central Desert habitats. Historical records of A. escondida were first recorded in April 1941 and 1946 ( UCRC). We collected two females in El Descanso locality in the Central Desert in March 2021 ( MABC). See fig. 12.