Habropoda pallida

Habropoda pallida (Timberlake, 1937) [Holotype: AMNH; ♀ Palm desert 4.83 km east of Edom, Riverside Co., California, USA; March 8, 1936] This species is primarily distributed in sand dune habitats of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts, the Arizona Plateau, California and BC. Habropoda pallida specializes on pollen from several plants in Fabaceae (Fowler 2020). We examined four specimens (2 ♀, 2 ♂) collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 1954, and November 1975 (BBSL), three females collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 1962 and March 1973 one female collected in the Vizcaíno Desert (EMEC), one female collected in the Vizcaíno Desert in March 1981 (SDNHM), and one female reported only for the BC state (CASC). We further document its presence by collecting specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April of 2021 (3♀, 2 ♂) and in the Coastal Sage Matorral in 2023 (4♀, 2 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC (6 ♀, 3 ♂), and ECOAB (1 ♀, 1 ♂). See fig. 83.