Colletes clypeonitens Swenk 1906

Colletes clypeonitens Swenk, 1906 [Holotype: UNSM; ♀ Los Angeles, California, USA] This species is abundant in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico and specializes on pollen of Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville (Fowler 2020). It has been reported in the Lower Colorado Desert with preserved specimen records in AMNH and BBSL (GBIF 2023). The BBPT collected this species in the Lower Colorado Desert in February 2020 (1 ♀), the Central Desert in November 2020 (1 ♂; BC), and in the Vizcaíno Desert in March 2021 (3 ♂; BCS). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 154.