Anthophora (Anthophoroides) kellieae Engel, 2023

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 : 127

Anthophora (Anthophoroides) kellieae Engel, 2023

[ Holotype: SEMC; ♂ 10 km west Maricopa, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA; March 15, 1989]

This species is present in both BC and BCS and is abundant in March and April; however, there is a single record from November of 2020 that suggests a potential bivoltine nature. Engel (2023) reported this species in BC (no locality) and BCS in the Vizcaíno Desert and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland. We found records of this species from the Coastal Sage Matorral, Lower Colorado Desert, Succulent Coastal Matorral, Central Desert, Gulf Coast, and the Magdalena Plains. We examined two males collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 1960 and Vizcaíno Desert in April 1976 (EMEC). Additionally, recently captured specimens are vouchered at ECOAB, and MABC (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 70.