Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
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Pedro, Diego De
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Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
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Sagot, Philippe
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López-Reyes, Eulogio
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Mullins, Jessica L.
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Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
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Falcon-Brindis, Armando
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Griswold, Terry
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Ascher, John S.
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Gardner, Joel
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Ayala, Ricardo
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Vides-Borrell, Eric
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Vandame, Rémy
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-10-11
5522
1
1
391
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
1175-5334
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Anthophora (Micranthophora) columbariae
Timberlake & Cockerell, 1937
[
Holotype
:
AMNH
;
♂
Morongo
,
California
;
April 20–22, 1937
]
This species is distributed in the CFP and the SD and the Mojave Desert ecoregions. In BC, it has been collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral, Chaparral, and
Baja California
Mountains regions within the CFP, as well as in the Central Desert of the SD (
Orr
et al.
2018
). BBSL reports
four specimens
collected in the Central Desert in 1985 (
GBIF 2023
). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in May of 2021 and 2022, as well as in April of 2023 (Supplementary material 1). See fig. 72.