Perdita (Pygoperdita) californica ( Cresson, 1878 )

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

Perdita (Pygoperdita) californica ( Cresson, 1878)

[ ♂; California, USA; Perdita californica inopina Timberlake : Holotype: CASC; Inyo Co., California, USA; July 30; 1962]

Perdita californica inhabits the CFP and is a pollen specialist on endemic lilies in the genus Calochortus Pursh ( Fowler 2020) . We reviewed three specimens, all of which were captured in the Coastal Sage Matorral, one female in Ensenada in June 1952, and two males in San Vicente in May 1938 (CASC). The BBPT collected one male in May 2019 on Cerro Santo Tomás in the Central Desert, one female in May 2020 and four males in June 2020 in the Coastal Sage Matorral. There are also recent observations of this species on iNaturalist that include the floral host (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=59163&subview=map&taxon_id=309374). See fig. 63.

Perdita (Pygoperdita) fieldi Timberlake, 1956

[ Holotype: USNM; ♀ San Diego Co., California, USA]

Perdita fieldi is distributed in the CFP across California and BC states. We reviewed 32 specimens collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral and Succulent Coastal Matorral in June 1975 and June 1976 ( CASC). The BBPT collected nine specimens (6 ♀, 3 ♂) in the Coastal Sage Matorral and the Chaparral during May 2022. See fig. 63 .