Osmia (Melanosmia) gaudiosa Cockerell, 1907

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 : 365

Osmia (Melanosmia) gaudiosa Cockerell, 1907

[ Holotype: UCMC; ♂ on campus of University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA; April 10, 1907]

Osmia gaudiosa occurs in the western USA and BC, Mexico. We reviewed specimens collected in Chaparral in May 1981 (1 ♀) and Baja California Mountains in Sierra Juarez in May 1982 (2 ♀; SDNHM). Additionally, the BBPT collected again it in the Baja California Mountains in Sierra Juarez May 2022 (7 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 261 .