Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake, 1962

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 : 106

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935972
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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake, 1962
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Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake, 1962 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Salt Creek , Orocopia Mts., Riverside Co., California, USA; March 20, 1927]

This species occurs in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Mentzelia L. ( Fowler 2020). Within BC, it was recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in March 1966 by BBSL ( GBIF, 2023). See fig. 54.

References

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

GBIF (2023) GBIF Occurrence Download. https: // doi. org / 10.15468 / dl. jzq 6 tm

Timberlake, P. H. (1962) 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 V. University of California Publications in Entomology, 28 (1), 1 - 124.