Perdita (Perdita) nigridia 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 : 106

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2640192E-0A2B-49C9-BB35-D43AF0263E51
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13935972
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F12042-FFA1-8A06-0599-FCEBFE9497EE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake, 1962
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Perdita (Perdita) nigridia Timberlake, 1962 View in CoL

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

This species occurs in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Mentzelia L. ( Fowler 2020). Within BC, it was recorded in the Lower Colorado Desert in March 1966 by BBSL ( GBIF, 2023). See fig. 54.