Andrena (Thysandrena) illustris LaBerge, 1977

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 : 68

Andrena (Thysandrena) illustris LaBerge, 1977 **

[ Holotype: ♀ Pearblossom (1.61 km S.), Los Angeles Co., California; April 23, 1956]

Andrena illustris represents a new species record for Mexico. The BBPT collected one specimen in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 and another in Chaparral in May 2022 ( MABC). See fig. 21.