Perdita (Perdita) punctulata 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 : 110

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13939909
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scientific name	Perdita (Perdita) punctulata Timberlake, 1958
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Perdita (Perdita) punctulata Timberlake, 1958 View in CoL

[ Holotype: USNM; ♂ Palm Wash , about 1.61 km of Highway 99 in northwest corner of Imperial Co., California, USA; April 18, 1925]

Perdita punctulata is widely distributed in the SD and is a pollen specialist on creosote bush ( Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville ) ( Fowler 2020). We reviewed seven (6 ♂, 1 ♀) specimens collected in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Rosarito Beach (4 ♂), and the Lower Colorado Desert at 20 mi. W. Mexicali (1 ♀) and 20 mi. S. Palacio (2 ♂) ( CASC). See fig. 56.