Eucera (Synhalonia) amsinckiae ( Timberlake, 1969 )

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Eucera (Synhalonia) amsinckiae ( Timberlake, 1969)

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Riverside , California, USA; March 10, 1933]

This species occurs almost exclusively in the CFP and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Amsinckia Lehm. ( Fowler 2020) . Within BC, it has only been recorded near El Rosario in the Succulent Coastal Sage in 1960 (2 ♂, 1 ♀) ( Timberlake 1969). See fig. 102.