Townsendiella pulchra Crawford, 1916

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 : 216

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13940775
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FF1F-8AB8-0598-FF2BFBD995AE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Townsendiella pulchra Crawford, 1916
status

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Townsendiella pulchra Crawford, 1916 View in CoL

[ USNM; ♀ Las Cruces , Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA]

Townsendiella pulchra View in CoL is found in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Linsley (1943) reported its presence (1 ♀) in the Lower Colorado Desert 20 mi south Palacio, BC. This species is a brood parasite, and the host is Hesperapis larreae View in CoL ( Rozen & McGinley 1991, Orr & Griswold 2015). See fig. 142.