Perdita (Perdita) difficilis 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 : 99

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

[ Holotype: UCRC; ♂ 3.22 km south of Travertine Rocks (about 8.05 km south of Oasis), Imperial Co., California, USA; March 29, 1936]

Perdita difficilis View in CoL has a wide range throughout the southwestern USA and northern Mexico ( Ayala et al. 1996). It specializes on pollen from Prosopis L. ( Fowler 2020). SEMC reports specimens from El Mayor ( GBIF 2023). Additionally, we reviewed 29 specimens collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in El Mayor (2 ♂, 1 ♀), and 20 mi. W. Mexicali (22 ♂, 4 ♀) in April 1939 (CASC). See fig. 47.

References

Ayala, R., Griswold, T. L. & Yanega, D. (1996) Apoidea (Hymenoptera). In: Llorente, J., Garcia- Aldrete, A. N. & Gonzalez, E. (Eds.), Biodiversidad Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico. 27. UNAM-CONABIO, Mexico, D. F., pp. 423 - 464.

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