Townsendiella pulchra Crawford 1916

Townsendiella pulchra Crawford, 1916 [USNM; ♀ Las Cruces, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA] Townsendiella pulchra is found in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Linsley (1943) reported its presence (1 ♀) in the Lower Colorado Desert 20 mi south Palacio, BC. This species is a brood parasite, and the host is Hesperapis larreae (Rozen & McGinley 1991, Orr & Griswold 2015). See fig. 142.