Colletes louisae Cockerell 1897

Colletes louisae Cockerell, 1897 [USNM; ♂ A few miles E. of Las Cruces New Mexico, USA; September 27, 1896] This species has been previously reported in the Lower Colorado Desert by the AMNH (GBIF 2023). We examined one male collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in April 1939 (CASC). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Guadalupe Valley in June 2020 (1 ♀), the transition zone between the Chaparral and Lower Colorado Desert in October 2019 (1 ♀), the Central Desert in November 2020 (66 ♀, 7 ♂), and Vizcaíno Desert in November 2020 (6 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 156.