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Subtribe Perditina - Fairy and Goblin Bees

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Taxonomic revision of Perdita subgenus Heteroperdita Timberlake (Hymenopt.: Andrenidae), with descriptions of two ant-like males

By Portman Z.M., Neff J.L., Griswold T.
Zootaxa 4214: 1‒97, 2016

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Contributed by v belov on 13 March, 2024 - 7:51pm

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) » Goblin Bees (Macrotera)

Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Perdita subgenera Macrotera, Macroteropsis, Macroterella and Cockerellula...

By Danforth B.N.
U. Kans. Sci. Bull. 55: 635‒692, 1996

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Contributed by v belov on 18 October, 2023 - 4:56pm

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)

A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific coast, Part I.

By Timberlake P.H.
UC Pub. Entomol. 9: 345‒432, 1954

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Contributed by v belov on 21 March, 2019 - 3:02am

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)

A revision of Perdita (Xerophasma) Timberlake (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)

By Griswold T., Miller W.
Zootaxa 2517: 1–14, 2010

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Contributed by v belov on 14 November, 2011 - 11:51am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees

Nesting biologies and immature stages of the rophitine bees (Halictidae) with notes on the cleptoparasite Biastes(Anthophoridae)

By Rozen J.G.
Am. Mus. Novitates 3066: 1‒28, 1993

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Contributed by v belov on 18 June, 2024 - 2:21pm

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Family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

By Engel M.S.
Am. Mus. novitates 3476, 33 pp., 2005

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Contributed by v belov on 23 October, 2023 - 11:18am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees

The Solitary Bees - Biology, Evolution, Conservation

By Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff
Princeton University Press, 2019

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Princeton introduction

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 19 September, 2019 - 5:33pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees

Collecting bees in southern Texas.

By Cockerell, W.P.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193., 1917

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Cockerell, W.P. 1917. Collecting bees in southern Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193.

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 31 January, 2019 - 2:06pm

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