Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) obliquus (Say, 1837)

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 : 163

Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) obliquus (Say, 1837)

[ ♂ Indiana, USA]

Epimelissodes obliquus is distributed across a vast expanse of North America. This species specializes on a few plant genera in the family Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) . In the BCP, it has only been recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in Mexicali ( LaBerge 1956). See fig. 100.