Megachile (Chelostomoides) davidsoni Cockerell, 1902

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 : 311

Megachile (Chelostomoides) davidsoni Cockerell, 1902

[ Holotype: AMNH; ♀ Southern California, USA]

This species occurs in California, USA and the BCP, Mexico and specializes on plants in the genus Ehrendorferia T. Fukihara & Lidén in the family Papaveraceae ( Fowler 2020) . We examined one male collected in the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland in October 1941 (CASC). See fig. 220.