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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 Cockerellia (Perdita Subgenus Cockerellia) » Perdita beata
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Perdita beata? - Perdita beata - female
Copyright © 2020 Paul De Ley

Perdita beata? - Perdita beata - Female
Las Cruces, flood basin at S end Sonoma Ranch Rd, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
June 27, 2020
Size: 7mm
Looks like a good match with the pinned specimen shown on discoverlife.org. If it is P. beata then these would be the first images for the species here ... possibly even the first photos of a live example anywhere on the web?

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Contributed by Paul De Ley on 7 August, 2020 - 10:00am
Last updated 9 August, 2020 - 10:11pm

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 9 August, 2020 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

I think so
Locality matches, and bent mandibles are consistent with subgenus Cockerellia. Most other all-pale diurnal Perdita are in subgenus Perdita
… John S. Ascher, 9 August, 2020 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John!
Excellent, thanks John!
… Paul De Ley, 9 August, 2020 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.

Very cool! I agree Perdita sp., but I don't know enough to ID to species. One of the experts may though!
… Nathaniel Green, 7 August, 2020 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

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