Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
South. Calif., Ariz., N. Mex.; Mexico (Baja California), deserts.
- 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.
Distribution
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
South. Calif., Ariz., N. Mex.; Mexico (Baja California), deserts.
- 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
Colletes covilleae Timberlake
This species appears to be a Larrea oligolege, and all of the pollen-bearing females we have seen were carrying pollen of this plant. Its range appears to be limited largely to the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and southern California but extends on the Mojave Desert and into Baja California. Adults are active in the spring (March and April on the low deserts, May and June on the Mojave Desert and in the Owens Valley).
- 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
