Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) helianthelli

Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes) helianthelli (Cockerell, 1905) [Holotype: CASC; ♀ Mesilla, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA; 26 Jun] This species is distributed in the xeric regions of the southwestern USA and northern Mexico (LaBerge 1958). SEMC holds one specimen from the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland collected in April 1994 identified by R. Brooks (iDigBio 2023). Additionally, we reviewed one male collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in Mexicali in June 1939 (CASC). The MABC team collected one female in Mexicali in August 2018. See fig. 100.