Synhalonia primiveris Timberlake

Synhalonia primiveris Timberlake

Timberlake (1969) reports that this is a common vernal species of our western deserts of California (Colorado and Mojave Deserts), Nevada, and Utah, and his records show that the species visits the flowers of a wide variety of desert shrubs and annuals. We have found it rather sparingly at several localities on the Colorado Desert of California (e.g., Palm Springs) as a casual polylege of Larrea.