Anthophora (Anthophoroides) californica Cresson, 1869

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 : 126

Anthophora (Anthophoroides) californica Cresson, 1869

[ Holotype: ANSP; ♂ California]

Anthophora californica is a common species in the southwestern USA, and northern Mexico. It is a vernal species, often seen in March and April. In BC, it has been recorded in Coastal Sage Matorral, the Succulent Coastal Matorral and the Chaparral in the CFP and in the Lower Colorado Desert and the Central Desert regions of the SD. The BBPT collected specimens in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 that are vouchered in MABC, ECOAB (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 70.