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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Bombus (Thoracobombus) pensylvanicus
(De Geer, 1773)
[
Lectotype
:
NHRS
;
♀
USA;
Bombus (Thoracobombus) pensylvanicus sonorus
Say, 1837
holotype
:
Tomas Say
collection;
☿
Mexico
]
The individuals of this species in the
Baja California
Peninsula exhibit the coloration pattern of
Bombus pensylvanicus sonorus
, as described by
Williams
et al
. (2014)
. This is the only bumble bee species found in BCS, where it is found in all ecoregions. In BC, it has been recorded in the Central Desert and the Coastal Sage Matorral with specimens in BBSL, EMEC, INHS, LACM, SEMC, and UCRC (
GBIF 2023
). We review
73 specimens
from BCS (CASC). The BBPT collected
six females
in the Gulf
Coast region
, BCS in
September and November 2020
(
3 ♀
MABC;
3 ♀
ECOAB). However, we are aware of recent sightings of
Bombus
p. sonorus
in San Diego County near the border with BC (
Hung
et al
. 2015
) as well as 28 observations on iNaturalist at the time of this writing (https://www. inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7403,8501&subview=map&taxon_id=57690). See fig. 85.