Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
South. Calif., arid regions.
- 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
Anthophora (Anthophora) linsleyi Timberlake
Anthophora linsleyi is primarily a species of the Mojave Desert and adjacent areas in the southern San Joaquin and the Owens valleys of California. It is associated primarily with Salvia carduacea (Linsley and MacSwain, 1942), but females have been taken at Lupinus odoratus and Phacelia distans (Timberlake, 1941), as well as Larrea. The principal flight period is from late April to early June. Linsley and MacSwain (1942) have described the habits of the species. It nests gregariously, sometimes in very large numbers, either in banks or flat ground, usually in a hard-packed, dry, sandy conglomerate soil in an area where water is available throughout the nesting season.
- 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
