Perdita (Perdita) heliotropii Cockerell, 1900

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 : 103

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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) heliotropii Cockerell, 1900
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Perdita (Perdita) heliotropii Cockerell, 1900 View in CoL

[ Syntype: USNM; ♀ Juarez , Chihuahua, Mexico; October 6, 1899]

This species is widely distributed in northwestern Mexico and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Heliotropium L. ( Fowler 2020). In BC, it has been sampled in The Lower Colorado Desert in Mexicali municipality ( Timberlake 1958). See fig. 51.

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