Distribution
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Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., south. Calif.; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua and Coahuila).
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- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Perdita (Perditella) larreae Cockerell
This and the following species belong to the small subgenus Perditella. Both are Larrea bees but their two relatives, P. (P). cladothricis Cockerell and P. (P.) minima Timberlake, visit Tidestromia and Euphorbia, respectively.
Perdita larreae was described originally from San Marcial, New Mexico, from the flowers of Larrea. Its range is now known to extend westward through Arizona to southern California and northern Mexico (Timberlake, 1956). Females fly primarily in the late summer and autumn, but there is a spring flight in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and southeastern California. We found it abundant in the San Simon Valley of Arizona and New Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- Hurd, Paul D., Jr. and Linsley, E. Gorton. 1975. "The principal Larrea bees of the southwestern United States (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-74. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.193
Perdita larreae: Brief Summary
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Perdita larreae is a species of bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
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