Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) salviae Michener, 1939

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 : 332

Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) salviae Michener, 1939

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Eagle Rock , California, USA; May 9, 1936]

This species occurs in the southwestern USA and BC, Mexico and specializes on pollen from plants in the family Lamiaceae including Lepechinia Willd. , Salvia L., and Trichostema L. ( Fowler 2020). Within BC, it has been previously recorded in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in July 1980 by SDNHM ( GBIF 2023). The MABC team collected one female in the Chaparral in May 2021. See fig. 236.