Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) sabinensis ( Cockerell, 1924 )

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 : 164

Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) sabinensis ( Cockerell, 1924)

[ Holotype: AMNH; ♂ Sabino Basin 1158 km elev., Santa Catalina Mountains , Arizona, USA; July and August 1916]

Epimelissodes sabinensis is a highly abundant species in northern Mexico and the southwestern USA ( LaBerge, 1958). Within the BCP, it has only been recorded in BCS, where it exhibits significant abundance between the months of September and November when genera such as Baccharis L. and Helianthus L. are in bloom. E. sabinensis specializes on pollen from late-blooming Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) . TAMU and INHS report preserved specimen records from the Gulf Coast, Sarcocaulescent Shrubland and Cape Mountains ( GBIF 2023; SCAN 2023). Additionally, we reviewed 12 males from the Cape Mountains and Gulf Coast collected in October 1941 (CASC). The CARCIB team collected 27 specimens (15 ♀, 12 ♂) in 2014, 2016, and 2017. See fig. 100.