Hoplitis (Proteriades) cryptanthae (Timberlake & Michener, 1950)

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 : 351

Hoplitis (Proteriades) cryptanthae (Timberlake & Michener, 1950) **

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ Riverside , California, USA; April 18, 1928]

As the name suggests, H. cryptanthae specializes on pollen from Cryptantha Lehm. ex G. Don ( Boraginaceae ) ( Fowler 2020). This species was previously known only from California, USA and represents a new species record for Mexico. The BBPT collected one female in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May 2022 (MABC). See fig. 251.