Anthidium cochimi Snelling, 1992
This species may nest in abandoned nests of Diadasia Patton (Apidae) as indicated by a specimen label collected in Pinal, Arizona.
The female of this species is most similar to that of A. maculifrons by T1–T5, which have strongly elevated discal areas and by T6, which has a small, acute lateral projection with minutely crenulate preapical carina. It differs from A. maculifrons by the weakly convex clypeus with a non-tuberculate distal margin (except for the low sublateral tubercles) and the absence of preapical labral projections. In A. maculifrons the clypeus is prominently convex with the distal margin gently tuberculate and the preapical labral projections are small but present. Also, the disc of the clypeus and distal half of the supraclypeal area are covered with normal hairs whereas these areas are covered with apically hooked hairs in A. cochimi. The male of A. cochimi is easily recognized by the broadly triangular lobe of T7, and the shape of S6 and S8.
Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of USA and Mexico.
