Perdita (Hexaperdita) heterothecae Cockerell, 1900

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 : 92

Perdita (Hexaperdita) heterothecae Cockerell, 1900

[ Syntypes: USNM; ♀ Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona, US; October 1899]

This species occurs in the southwestern USA and BC, Mexico. This species specializes on pollen from plants in a broad range of genera in Asteraceae ( Fowler 2020) . We confirmed the single specimen of P. heterothecae recorded for Mexico (Timberlake 1956), which is a female collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in Mexicali, BC in June 1939 (CASC). See fig. 41.