Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
South. Calif., Ariz., Nev.; Mexico (Baja California, and Sonora).
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
General Ecology
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Readily accepts trap-nests.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Ashmeadiella (Arogochila) breviceps Michener
This is an exceptionally small species of the genus Ashmeadiella, which flies during the spring months of March, April, and May on the Sonoran and Mojave deserts, ranging from near Tucson, Arizona, and adjacent northern Mexico (Sonora and Baja California Norte) to southern Nevada and the desert areas of southern California (Hurd and Michener, 1955). Even though the females of this species have been frequently taken at the flowers of Larrea while usually collecting pollen, they have also been collected with pollen in their scopae at several other desert plants, including Dipetalia linifolia, Hyptis emoryi, Prosopis chilensis glandulosa, and Stephanomeria.
- bibliographic citation
- Hurd, Paul D., Jr. and Linsley, E. Gorton. 1975. "The principal Larrea bees of the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-74. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.193
