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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Fairy Bees and Allies (Panurgini) » Fairy and Goblin Bees (Perditina) » Fairy Bees (Perdita) » Subgenus Perdita (Perdita Subgenus Perdita)

Subgenus Perdita

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Perdita sp, female, yellow with black markings - Perdita - female Perdita e - Perdita ID for a small bee? - Perdita ericameriae - female Bee - Perdita Perdita?? - Perdita - male Perdita? - Perdita Small Bee - Perdita Perdita swenki? - Perdita
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 Perdita
Numbers
by far the largest subgenus, with ~370 spp. in our area and ~450 spp. total(1)
Range
NA, most diverse in sw. US; 7 spp. range into Canada, ~150 occur in Mexico, one ranges south into Guatemala(1)
Food
"The species of this subgenus are oligolectic on a very wide diversity of different flowers."(2)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
Charles D. Michener. 2007. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 9 March, 2008 - 3:36pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 5 October, 2012 - 8:11pm

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