Perdita (Cockerellia) imbellis Timberlake

Portman, Zachary M. & Griswold, Terry, 2017, Review of PerditasubgenusProcockerellia Timberlake (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) and the first Perdita gynandromorph, ZooKeys 712, pp. 87-111 : 101

Perdita (Cockerellia) imbellis Timberlake

Perdita (Cockerellia) imbellis Timberlake, 1968: 21, ♂. Holotype male: USA, Arizona, Coconino Co., 28 May 1954, F. Werner [CAS type no. 13525]. Examined.

Perdita (Cockerellia) hilaris Timberlake, 1968: 2, ♂ (syn. Timberlake 1980). Holotype male: USA, Utah, Dixie State Park, 13 June 1961, G.E. Bohart [CAS type no. 14554]. Not examined.

Perdita (Procockerellia) brachyglossa Timberlake, 1971: 6, ♀. Holotype female: USA, Arizona, Coconino Co., Four and one-half miles southwest of Marble Canyon, 30 August 1967, P.H. Timberlake, on Thelesperma [CAS type no. 14448]. Examined. Syn. n.

Remarks.

Perdita (Procockerellia) brachyglossa was described from a single female specimen. Timberlake (1971) reported that the female had four maxillary palpi. Examination of the holotype revealed four maxillary palpi on one side and one palp on the other. In every morphological character except the palpi, the holotype of P. brachyglossa clearly matches P. imbellis . It seems likely that the mouthparts of the holotype of P. brachyglossa are either damaged or aberrant.

Due to a lapsus calami in Timberlake (1980), Perdita albomaculata Timberlake, 1980, Perdita imbellis Timberlake, 1968, and Perdita luculenta Timberlake, 1968 were all referred to as being in subgenus Cockerellula Strand, 1932. They all belong in subgenus Cockerellia .