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

Perdita (Perdita) flavipes Timberlake, 1963

[ 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.