Perdita (Perdita) flavipes Timberlake, 1963

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 : 101

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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) flavipes Timberlake, 1963
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[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Probably near Meloland, Imperial Co., California, USA; April 1911]

This is a rare species that occurs in the Lower Colorado and Mojave deserts. In the BCP, it has only been reported in the Lower Colorado Desert south of Palacio ( Hurd & Linsley 1975). We reviewed seven specimens (4 ♂, 3 ♀) collected 12 mi. South of Palacio in April 1939 ( CASC). See fig. 50.

References

Hurd Jr., P. D., & Linsley, E. G. (1975) The principal Larrea bees of the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Smithsonian Contributions in Zoology, 193, 1 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.193

Abbreviations

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