Anthidium (Anthidium) palmarum Cockerell, 1904

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 : 287

Anthidium (Anthidium) palmarum Cockerell, 1904

[ Holotype: AMNH; ♂ Palm Spring , California, USA]

Anthidium palmarum occurs throughout the southern USA and northern Mexico. Prior to this study, it had been collected in the Baja California Mountains, Lower Colorado Desert ( BBSL), and Central Desert ( SDNHM) ( GBIF 2023 ). Additionally , we reviewed eight specimens collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in April 1963 (2 ♀), 1965 (4 ♂), and 1969 (2 ♀; CASC). The BBPT collected this species in Succulent Coastal Sage in May 2022 (3 ♂, 2 ♀); and Central Desert in March 2021, and April 2023. Voucher specimens are in MABC , and ECOAB. See fig. 199.