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Species Perdita bequaertiana

Perdita bequaertiana Cockerell, 1951 HOLOTYPE - Perdita bequaertiana - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)
Family Andrenidae (Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees)
Subfamily Panurginae (Panurgine Bees)
Tribe Panurgini (Fairy Bees and Allies)
Subtribe Perditina (Fairy and Goblin Bees)
Genus Perdita (Fairy Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Xerophasma)
Species bequaertiana (Perdita bequaertiana)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Xerophasma bequaerti Cockerell, 1923; Perdita bequaerti_homonym (Cockerell, 1923); Perdita bequaertiana Cockerell, 1951, replacement name
Identification
Greatly enlarged ocelli.
Range
Southern Great Plains, northern Chihuahuan Desert, and Colorado Plateau. Known from El Paso and Howard Counties, Texas to Coconino County, Arizona, and Grand County, Utah.
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