Anthidium banningense Cockerell, 1904
Biology:
Nests are constructed in the ground. Males exhibit a well developed territorial behavior such as that observed in A. manicatum (Jaycox, 1967b).
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Anthidium banningense Cockerell, 1904
Anthidium banningense Cockerell, 1904
Biology:Alliaceae: Allium sp. Asteraceae: Chaenactis glabriuscula. Boraginaceae: Cryptantha sp.; Nama hispidum; Phacelia hastata, P. heterophylla, P. imbricata, P. leucophylla*, P. linearis, P. ramosissima. Fabaceae: Lotus davidsonii; Medicago sativa; Melilotus sp.; Trifolium wormskioldii. Onagraceae: Clarkia amoena. Plantaginaceae: Collinsia heterophylla. Rosaceae: Physocarpus sp.
Diagnostic description:The female can be easily recognized by T6, which has a long, acute lateral angle and by the densely punctate terga. The male can be recognized by T7, which has a nearly digitiform lateral lobe and by S6, which has a lateral lobe distinctly obliquely truncate, thus forming sharp lateral and submedian angles or spines, and a median lobe rectangular, apically truncate.
Distribution:Mountains of the western United States from the Pacific Coast states to Utah. Not recorded from the Rocky Mountains nor the South Coast Range of California.