Xenoglossa pomonae (Cockerell, 1915)

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 : 183

Xenoglossa pomonae (Cockerell, 1915)

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Laguna , Los Angeles Co., California, USA]

Xenoglossa pomonae is a highly abundant species in California, USA, with a flight season ranging from April to October. We reviewed one male from Ensenada collected in April 1952 ( CASC). This species has an affinity for yellow composites in the family Asteracae . See fig. 116 .