Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake, 1958

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 : 98

Perdita (Perdita) covilleae Timberlake, 1958

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Whitewater , Riverside Co., California, USA; April 19, 1925]

This species is widely distributed in the southwestern USA, and it is present in the Lower Colorado Desert and the Coastal Sage Matorral of BC ( Timberlake 1958). This bee specializes on pollen from Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville ( Fowler 2020) . We reviewed three males: two collected in the Lower Colorado Desert and one in the Coastal Sage Matorral in April 1939 (CASC). See fig. 46.