Hoplitis (Proteriades) pygmaea (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 : 355

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

[ Holotype: CASC; ♂ La Quinta, west of Indio , Riverside Co., California, USA; March 4, 1936]

Hoplitis pygmaea specializes on pollen from Cryptantha Lehm. ex G. Don ( Boraginaceae ) ( Fowler 2020). This species inhabits the warm deserts of the southwestern USA and BC. We examined one male collected in the Central Desert in April 1976 (EMEC). See fig. 253.