An Illustrated Key to Anthophoroides With the Description of Three New Species (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Abstract

Three new species of the cosmopolitan bee genus Anthophora Latreille are described and figured from North America, all of the subgenus Anthophoroides Cockerell & Cockerell and all based on a series of females and males. Anthophora (Anthophoroides) buchmanni sp. n. from Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico; A. (A.) cinerula sp. n. from California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, USA; whileA. (A.) kellieae sp. n. is recorded from southern California and Arizona, USA and Baja California, Mexico. An illustrated key is presented to the species of Anthophoroides.