Perdita (Perdita) ashmeadi Cockerell, 1899

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 94

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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) ashmeadi Cockerell, 1899
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Perdita (Perdita) ashmeadi Cockerell, 1899 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ San José de Guaymas , Sonora, Mexico; April 10, 1898]

Perdita ashmeadi specializes on pollen from the genus Prosopis L. ( Fowler 2020). We reviewed 11 specimens, five males collected in the Lower Colorado Desert , BC in April 1939, and six (3 ♀, 3 ♂) in the Gulf Coast, BCS in March 1953 ( CASC). See fig. 44.

References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899) Catalogo de las abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de la Secretaria de Fomento, 15, 1 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 60192

Fowler, J. (2020) Pollen specialist bees of the western United States. Available from: https: // jarrodfowler. com / pollen _ specialist. html (accessed 12 May 2024)