Perdita (Perdita) obliqua Timberlake, 1928

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 : 106

Perdita (Perdita) obliqua Timberlake, 1928

[ Holotype: CASC; ♀ Baboquivari Mountains , Arizona, USA; August 20, 1924]

This species occurs in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA in Arizona and California. In the BCP, it has been recorded in the Gulf Coast and the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland ecoregions in BCS. Specimens are preserved in the UCRC, SEMC, and INHS collections. We reviewed six specimens, one male collected in the Gulf Coast 15 mi. W. La Paz, in September 1959, and the Magdalena Plains in July 1938 (3♀, 1♂; CASC). See fig. 55.