Mesoxaea (Heteroxaea) vagans ( Fox, 1894 )

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 : 68

Mesoxaea (Heteroxaea) vagans ( Fox, 1894)

Endemic

[ Lectotype: CASC; ♂ west side of El Taste, Baja California Sur, Mexico; September 1983?]

Mesoxaea vagans is endemic to the southern region of the BCP and has been reported multiple times in the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland, Magdalena Plains, and the southern Gulf Coast ( Hurd & Linsley 1976). We examined 22 specimens collected in the Gulf Coast (5 ♂, 1 ♀ CASC; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ BBSL), Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (3 ♂, 1 ♀ CASC; 4 ♂ BBSL), and in the Vizcaíno Desert (4 ♂, 2 ♀ CASC), expanding the known distribution of this species. Additionally , the CARCIB team collected this species in the Gulf Coast (1 ♂) and Magdalena Plains (1 ♀) in April 2017, and in Sarcocaulescent Shrubland in September (6 ♂, 1 ♀), October (1 ♂), November (3 ♂) 2016, and April (1 ♀), and November (1 ♀) 2017. Voucher specimens are in the ASUHIC, BBSL, CASC, LACM, and CARCIB. See fig. 23 .