Perdita (Perdita) prosopidis Timberlake, 1964

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 : 108

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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) prosopidis Timberlake, 1964
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Perdita (Perdita) prosopidis Timberlake, 1964 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ Coachella , Riverside Co., California, USA; April 23, 1927]

Perdita prosopidis View in CoL occurs in the SD in the states of Arizona, California and Nevada, USA, and BC, Mexico. This species is a specialist on pollen from Prosopis L., a desert plant in the family Fabaceae ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . We reviewed 43 specimens (40 ♂, 3 ♀) collected in BC in the Lower Colorado Desert in April 1939 ( CASC). See fig. 56 .

References

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