Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) polifolii (Cockerell, 1901)

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 : 241

Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) polifolii (Cockerell, 1901)

[ Type: USNM; ♂ Alpine Tavern , Mount Lowe, about 1,524 mts elev., Los Angeles Co., California, USA; August 12, 1901]

Hylaeus polifolii is common in California, USA and been previously recorded in February 1946 in the Coastal Sage Matorral in BC ( UCRC). We reviewed one female collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral in February 1958 ( CASC). The BBPT collected four specimens (3 ♂, 1 ♀) in the same ecoregion in Ensenada City in May 2020, and Maneadero in March 2021 and May 2022 ( MABC). See fig. 164.