Perdita (Perditella) minima Cockerell, 1923

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 : 117

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scientific name	Perdita (Perditella) minima Cockerell, 1923
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Perdita (Perditella) minima Cockerell, 1923 View in CoL

[ Holotype: AMNH; ♀ Tempe , Arizona, USA; July 30, 1917]

Perdita minima View in CoL is the smallest bee species in the Americas. It is widely distributed in northern Mexico and southwestern USA and is a pollen specialist on Euphorbia View in CoL L. in the family Euphorbiaceae ( Fowler 2020) View in CoL . In the BPC, it has been reported in the Succulent Coastal Matorral ( BC), the Magdalena Plains , and the Gulf Coast ( BCS). We reviewed 12 specimens (10 ♂, 2 ♀; CASC). See fig. 62.

References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1923) VII: Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921: The Bees (I). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 7 (7), 73 - 103.

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