Perdita (Perdita) rhois Cockerell, 1901

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Perdita (Perdita) rhois Cockerell, 1901

[ Syntype: USNM; ♀ In the immediate vicinity of the Brandegee Herbarium, San Diego Co., California, USA; August 4, 1901]

Perdita rhois is endemic to the CFP. In BC, it has been collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral and Succulent Coastal Matorral ecoregions. There are preserved specimen records from BBSL and UCRC ( GBIF 2023). We reviewed 116 specimens collected in BC vouchered at the CASC (Supplementary Material 1). Unlike most of the species in this genus, P. rhois is polylectic and visits a wide taxonomic variety of flowers for pollen and nectar, though these flowers generally have white petals and are clustered in a panicle or umbel. See fig. 57.