Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) erema Michener, 1939

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 : 332

Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) erema Michener, 1939 *

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ west side of Westgard Pass , Inyo Co., California, USA; June 15, 1937]

Ashmeadiella erema specializes on pollen from several plants in the family Fabaceae , including Dalea L., Hedysarum L., and Lupinus L. ( Fowler 2020). This represents a new species record for the BCP. The BBPT collected one female in Sierra Juarez in May 2022 (MABC). See fig. 235.