Xylocopa sonorina Smith, 1874 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopinae) with comments on its taxonomy Author Sheffield, Cory Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0603-7333 cory.sheffield@gov.sk.ca Author Heron, Jennifer British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Species Conservation Science Unit, Vancouver, Canada Author Musetti, Luciana The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States of America https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3904-2606 text Biodiversity Data Journal 2020 8 49918 49918 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e49918 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e49918 1314-2828-8-e49918 16B704A26B78586982831F5718361B20 Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) sonorina Smith, 1874 Xylocopa sonorina Smith, 1874 in Smith 1874 : 278 [♀] Holotype ♀. HAWAII, Sandw[ich]. Isl[and]." (not Sunda Isl.; see Lieftinck (1956) ) [BMNH] [presented by E.W.H. Holdsworth Esq to the British Museum under register 1864.8 as per Lieftinck (1956) ]. Xylocopa varipuncta Patton, 1879 in Patton 1879 : 60 [♀] [ New Synonymy ] Syntypes ♀. USA, Arizona, by C.V. Riley [USNM] Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: catalogNumber: OSUC 012135 ; sex: female ; lifeStage: adult ; previousIdentifications: Xylocopabrasilianorumvaripunctata by Hurd '1954; Taxon: scientificName: Xylocopasonorina Smith, 1874; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Apidae; genus: Xylocopa; subgenus: Neoxylocopa; specificEpithet: sonorina; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Smith, 1874; Location: continent: North America; country: Canada ; stateProvince: British Columbia; locality: Capilano Canyon ; verbatimLocality: Capilano Can; Identification: identifiedBy: Cory S. Sheffield ; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: eventDate: 18 June 1949; verbatimEventDate: vi-18-49 ; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; institutionCode: OSUC ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Distribution Presumed native to the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico ( Mawdsley 2017 ), and introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, French Polynesia, Samoan Islands, Java, New Zealand and likely other south Pacific islands, the Marianas Islands, and now Canada.