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Ashmeadiella bigeloviae (Cockerell, 1897)
Heriades bigeloviae Cockerell, 1897

Life   Insecta   Hymenoptera   Apoidea   Megachilidae   Ashmeadiella
Subgenus: Ashmeadiella



Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, face
Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, face

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Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, side
Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, side
Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, top
Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, top

Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, wing
Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Ashmeadiella bigeloviae, male, wing

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This is a rather small, coarsely punctate species, black with the middle and hind legs largely red. The pubescence is not as abundant as in haemato- poda and rhodopus.


Female: Inner margins of eyes converging below; under side of flagellum dusky; punctation of head coarse and close, cheeks more finely punctate than rest of head; clypeus with apical truncation bounded by more distinct angles than in haematopoda or rhodopus, truncation nearly as broad as distance from end of truncation to lateral angle of clypeus; distance from first to third mandibular tooth less than width of eye or length of last three antennal segments; anterior ocellus posterior to midpoint between bases of antennae and posterior edge of vertex. Scutum with punctures similar to those of vertex but more widely separated; scutum with distinct band of pubescence around it, so that there are no separate spots of pubescence anteriorly; punc- tures of mesepisterna finer than those of scutum; tegulae testaceous; middle femora and hind femora and tibiae red, fore femora, middle tibiae, and hind metatarsi sometimes reddish in part; inner margin of inner hind tibial spurs with fourteen small teeth, outer margin with about nine large teeth; inner margin of outer spurs with about five large, oblique teeth, outer margin with about seven oblique teeth. Abdomen quite coarsely punctate; posterior mar- gins of tergites reddish. Length 5V2 to 6? mm.


Male: Similar to female. Anterior margin of clypeus with conlcavity over half as long as basal width of clypeus and demarked by distinct angles; tarsi reddish; inner margin of inner hind tibial spurs with about twelve teeth, outer margin with about eight teeth; lateral teeth of sixth tergite short and acutely pointed, median teeth rather translucent, about as wide as long, rounded, concavity between them wider than a semi-circle. Length 4V2 to 5v2mm.



This species occurs in the desert and arid regions of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California



TEXAS: LI Paso, April 5, 1902. NEW MEXICO: Alamogordo, April 17, 1902. ARIZONA: Florence, May 30, August 10, 1903 (C. R. Biederman); Yuma, April 1937; Bill Williams Fork, August (F. H. Snow, Univ. of Kansas); Tempe (J. Bequaert, Mus. Comp. Zool.) CALIFORNIA: Lone Pine, Inyo County, May 24, 1937, on Heliofropium curassasvicum (C. D. Michener); Mazourka Canyon, Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, California, May 25, 1937, on Parosela fremoniii (C. D. Michener); Hinkley, October 7, 1928, on Isocoma acradenia; Riverside, April 19, 1925, on Gulierrezia californica; La Quinta, April 7, 1936, on Cercidium torrevanum and Larrea glutinosa; Oasis, March 27, 1934, on Cercidium torreyanum; five miles south of Coachella, March 7, 1936, on Heliotropium curassa-vicum; Box Canyon, April 13, 1934, on Acacia greggii; Westmoreland, May 31, 1930, on Sesuvium sessile and Heliotropium curassavicum; ten miles west of Twenty-nine Palms, April 13, 1935, on Isomeris arborea (all P. H. Timberlake); Twenty-nine Palms, August 3, 1933, on Wislizenia refracta (P. H. Timberlake), and April 14, 1938 (G. E. and R. M. Bohart); San Felipe Road, San -Diego County, April 18, 1934; Shavers Well, Riverside County, April 8, 1934; Dos Palmos, Riverside County, March 19, 1934; Cathedral City, Riverside County, April 10, 1936, on Cercidium torreyanum (C. D. Michener); five miles west of Indio, April 10, 1936, on same plant; two miles east on Indio, April 10, 1936, on Geraea canescens (C. D. Michener)

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FamilyScientific name @ source (records)
Aizoaceae  Sesuvium sessile @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Sesuvium @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Anacardiaceae  Rhus trilobata @ UCRC_ENT (4)
Asclepiadaceae  Asclepias subverticillata @ BBSL (1)
Asteraceae  Baileya multiradiata @ BBSL (4); UCRC_ENT (14)

Baileya pleniradiata @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Baileya sp @ BBSL (8)

Baileya @ UCRC_ENT (25)

Carthamus tinctorius @ BBSL (2)

Chrysanthemum sp @ BBSL (1)

Encelia farinosa @ BBSL (12)

Enceliopsis argophylla @ BBSL (1)

Geraea canescens @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Gutierrezia microcephala @ UCRC_ENT (3)

Gutierrezia sarothrae @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Gutierrezia sp @ BBSL (2)

Gutierrezia @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Helianthus mollis @ BBSL (1)

Heterotheca subaxillaris @ UCRC_ENT (40)

Isocoma acradenia @ UCRC_ENT (5)

Machaeranthera pinnatifida @ BBSL (1)

Malacothrix sp @ BBSL (1)

Palafoxia arida @ BBSL (1)

Pectis papposa @ BBSL (13); UCRC_ENT (18)

Pectis sp @ BBSL__KWC (1)

Pluchea sericea @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Senecio sp @ BBSL (1)

Solidago @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Stephanomeria pauciflora @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Verbesina encelioides @ AMNH_BEE (1); UCRC_ENT (2)

Xylorhiza tortifolia @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Boraginaceae  Cryptantha ambigua @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Cryptantha intermedia @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Cryptantha sp @ BBSL (2)

Heliotropium curassavicum @ UCRC_ENT (15)

Heliotropium sp @ BBSL__KWC (2); BBSL (1)

Phacelia crenulata @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Phacelia @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Tiquilia palmeri @ UCRC_ENT (5)

Tiquilia @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Brassicaceae  Lepidium alyssoides @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Lepidium montanum @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Stanleya sp @ BBSL (1)
Capparaceae  Cleomella obtusifolia @ BBSL__DVNM (6); BBSL (7)
Cleomaceae  Cleomella obtusifolia @ UCRC_ENT (9)

Peritoma arborea @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Wislizenia refracta @ UCRC_ENT (8)
Euphorbiaceae  Euphorbia sp @ BBSL (8)
Fabaceae  Acacia greggii @ UCRC_ENT (3)

Acmispon nevadensis @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Astragalus lentiginosus @ BBSL (5)

Astragalus sp @ BBSL (1)

Cercidium sp @ BBSL (16)

Dalea emoryi @ BBSL__KWC (4)

Dalea mollis @ UCRC_ENT (22)

Dalea parryi @ BBSL__KWC (1)

Dalea sp @ BBSL__KWC (3); BBSL (6)

Marina parryi @ UCRC_ENT (7)

Melilotus sp @ BBSL (1)

Parkinsonia florida @ UCRC_ENT (9)

Parkinsonia @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Prosopis juliflora @ UCRC_ENT (5)

Prosopis sp @ BBSL (3)

Prosopis @ UCRC_ENT (3)

Psoralea sp @ BBSL (8)

Psorothamnus polydenius @ BBSL (9)

Psorothamnus spinosus @ UCRC_ENT (2)
Hydrophyllaceae  Nama sp @ BBSL (4)

Phacelia crenulata @ BBSL (1)

Phacelia sp @ BBSL (2)
Lamiaceae  Hyptis emoryi @ BBSL (1)

Monardella exilis @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Salvia dorrii @ UCRC_ENT (5)
Loasaceae  Mentzelia puberula @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Petalonyx sp @ BBSL__KWC (17)

Petalonyx thurberi @ UCREM (1)
Malvaceae  Sphaeralcea ambigua @ BBSL (1); UCRC_ENT (6)

Sphaeralcea orcuttii @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Sphaeralcea sp @ BBSL (5)

Sphaeralcea @ UCRC_ENT (2)
Nyctaginaceae  Boerhavia wrightii @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Papaveraceae  Arctomecon californica @ BBSL (1)
Polemoniaceae  Eriastrum virgatum @ UCRC_ENT (10)
Polygonaceae  Eriogonum deflexum @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Eriogonum deserticola @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Eriogonum fasciculatum @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Eriogonum inflatum @ UCRC_ENT (4)

Eriogonum trichopes @ UCRC_ENT (9)

Eriogonum @ UCRC_ENT (3)
Solanaceae  Solanum sp @ BBSL (2)
Tamaricaceae  Tamarix gallica @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Tamarix sp @ BBSL (1)
Zygophyllaceae  Kallstroemia grandiflora @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Larrea tridentata @ BBSL (12); UCRC_ENT (8)

Larrea @ UCRC_ENT (1)
_  Withheld @ BBSL (506); BBSL__ZION (2); BBSL__CAVE (15)

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