Anthidium (Anthidium) paroselae Cockerell, 1898

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 : 288

Anthidium (Anthidium) paroselae Cockerell, 1898

[ Holotype: SEMC; ♀ Mesilla , New Mexico, USA; June 17]

This species occurs in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Within the BCP, it has been previously recorded in the Succulent Coastal Matorral , Lower Colorado Desert in BC, and Vizcaíno Desert , and Magdalena Plains in BCS ( BBSL). We reviewed five males collected in the Vizcaíno Desert in March 1984 ( CASC). The CARCIB team collected this species in Vizcaíno Desert in September, October, and November 2016 (2 ♀, 1 ♂), and June, and November 2017 (2 ♂). Furthermore, the BBPT collected three specimens in the Vizcaíno Desert in March 2021 (2 ♂, 1 ♀), in Coastal Sage Matorral in April 2022 (4 ♂), and the Succulent Coastal Matorral in April 2023 (9 ♂, 8 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 199 .