Perdita (Perdita) bicuspidariae Timberlake, 1962

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 : 95

Perdita (Perdita) bicuspidariae Timberlake, 1962

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Salt Creek , Orocopia Mts., Riverside Co., California, USA; March 19–20, 1927]

This species inhabits California, USA and the BCP, Mexico and specializes on pollen from the genus Mentzelia L. ( Fowler 2020). There are eight specimen records from the Lower Colorado Desert vouchered at the BBSL ( GBIF 2023). We reviewed one male collected in the Lower Colorado Desert, 50 mi. N. San Felipe, BC (CASC). See fig. 45.