Perdita pallida (lat.) - a species of bees of the genus Perdita from the family Andrenidae .
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Distribution
North America ( USA , California) [1] .
Description
Small bees (females 8–9 mm long, males 6–7 mm long). Nocturnal hymenoptera with large eyes and ocelli. Wings with two submarginal cells. The marginal cell is short, approximately equal to pterostigma . The tongue is rather short, pointed at the apex. Labial palps short. Females at the end of the abdomen have a pygidal field ( pygidium , or tergite of the 7th abdominal segment). They live in xerophilic biotopes, nest in the soil. Included in the subgenus Xerophasma . The species was first described in 1954 by the American hymenopterologist Philip Hunter Timberlake ( PH Timberlake , 1883-1981) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Timberlake PH A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific Coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Part I (Eng.) // University of California Publications in Entomology: Journal. - 1954. - Vol. 9, no. 6 . - P. 345-432.
Literature
- Michener CD The Bees of the World. - 1st Edition. - Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 .-- 913 p. - ISBN 0-80818-6133 -0.
- Timberlake PH A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific Coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Part VII (Eng.) // University of California Publications in Entomology: Journal. - 1968. - Vol. 49. - P. 1-196.
- Timberlake PH Supplementary studies on the systematics of the genus Perdita (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae ) // University of California Publications in Entomology: Journal. - 1971. - Vol. 66. - P. 1-63.
Links
- Key to Perdita by Females . discoverlife.org. Date of treatment August 5, 2018.
- Key to Perdita for males . discoverlife.org. Date of treatment August 5, 2018.