Perdita (Hesperoperdita) trisignata Cockerell, 1896

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 : 88

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scientific name	Perdita (Hesperoperdita) trisignata Cockerell, 1896
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Perdita (Hesperoperdita) trisignata Cockerell, 1896 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ California, US]

This species specializes on pollen from plants in the family Fabaceae , specifically the genera Lotus L. and Acmispon Raf. ( Fowler 2020) . There are records of this species from the Coastal Sage Matorral in BC ( Timberlake 1954). There are no more recent records of it in the BCP, but it has been recently detected in San Diego County in California, USA ( Hung et al., 2015). See fig. 39.

References

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

Hung, K. - L. J., Rightmyer, M. G., Wall, M., Berrian, J., Ascher, J. S., Yanega, D., Davids, J. A. & Holway, D. A. (2015) An annotated checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) of San Diego County, California. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https: // doi. org / 10.6075 / J 0 PN 93 HK

Timberlake, P. H. (1954) A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) Part I. University of California Publications in Entomology, 9 (6), 345 - 432.

Abbreviations

USNM	USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]
USNM	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History