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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) » zonalis species group (Perdita zonalis species group) » Perdita ericameriae

Species Perdita ericameriae

Classification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References
ID for a small bee? - Perdita ericameriae - female ID for a small bee? - Perdita ericameriae ID for a small bee? - Perdita ericameriae - female ID for a small bee? - Perdita ericameriae - female ID for a small bee? - Perdita ericameriae - female Perdita ericameriae - female Perdita ericameriae - female Perdita ericameriae - 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 Perdita)
No Taxon (zonalis species group)
Species ericameriae (Perdita ericameriae)
Range
Southern California (Los Angeles and Riverside Counties). Discover Life Map.
Season
Late summer to Fall, based on flowering period of plant species visited.
Food
Females visit Ericameria (some formerly in genus Haplopappus, and Aplopappus), Gutierrezia californica, and Lepidospartum squamatum. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Print References
Timberlake, P.H. 1958. A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific coast, Part III. University of California Publications in Entomology 14: 303-410.
Internet References
Discover Life
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 15 November, 2010 - 10:17pm
Additional contributions by hg
Last updated 4 March, 2014 - 10:27pm

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