Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake, 1958

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 : 98

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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake, 1958
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Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake, 1958 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Whitewater , Riverside Co., California, USA; April 19, 1925]

This species is widely distributed in the southwestern USA, and it is present in the Lower Colorado Desert and the Coastal Sage Matorral of BC ( Timberlake 1958). This bee specializes on pollen from Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville ( Fowler 2020) . We reviewed three males: two collected in the Lower Colorado Desert and one in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April 1939 (CASC). See fig. 46.

References

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

Timberlake, P. H. (1958) 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 III. University of California Publications in Entomology, 14 (5), 303 - 410.

Abbreviations

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