Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subgenus Perditella

Perdita a - Perdita larreae - female Perdita a - Perdita larreae bee p - Perdita larreae Perdita? - Perdita - male Tiny wasp - Perdita larreae Tiny bees - Perdita cladothricis Tiny bees - Perdita cladothricis Visiting Phacelia integrifolia - Perdita marcialis - 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 Perditella
Numbers
5 spp. in our area, 6 spp. total(1)
Range
sw. US & Mexico(1)