Hoplitis (Proteriades) palmarum (Cockerell, 1935)

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 : 355

Hoplitis (Proteriades) palmarum (Cockerell, 1935)

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Palm Springs , California, USA; April 2, 1927]

Hoplitis palmarum occurs in California, USA and BC, Mexico. Within BC, it has been previously reported in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Baja California Mountains , and Central Desert by SDNHM (iDigBio 2023). Additionally , we examined one female collected in Chaparral in Sierra San Pedro Mártir in June 1958 ( EMEC). See fig. 253 .