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Perdita discreta Timberlake, 1954
Life   Insecta   Hymenoptera   Apoidea   Andrenidae   Perdita
Subgenus: Perdita

Perdita discreta, male, face
Joshua Thomas · 9
Perdita discreta, male, face

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Perdita discreta, male, side
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Perdita discreta, male, side
Perdita discreta, male, top side
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Perdita discreta, male, top side

Perdita discreta, male, top
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Perdita discreta, male, top
Perdita discreta, female, face
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Perdita discreta, female, face

Perdita discreta, female, side
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Perdita discreta, female, side
Perdita discreta, female, top
Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Perdita discreta, female, top

Perdita discreta, female, wing
Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9
Perdita discreta, female, wing
Perdita discreta, female, face
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Perdita discreta, female, face

Perdita discreta, male, face
© Rebekah Andrus Nelson · 1
Perdita discreta, male, face
Overview
Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.

FEMALE—Length 6 mm.; head and thorax green, abdomen piceous, maculae ivory; face considerably longer than distance between eyes; eyes subparallel; cheeks slightly narrower than eyes; vertex quite broad, but lateral ocelli considerably nearer its hind margin than to eyes; foveae elongate and very narrow, deep and distinct; mandibles pale yellow, becoming ferruginous apically; labrum dark; clypeus protruding about one-half below suborbital line, rather strongly convex, piceous, with a median, ivory, longitudinal band and a pair of lateral, transverse, subapical bands; facial maculae filling most of area between clypeus and lower orbits, extending narrowly up eye margin to level of antennae, nearly touching foveae; scape entirely dark, flagellum piceous above, becoming somewhat more brownish apically beneath; face below antennae somewhat shining, punctures of supraclypeal area distinct but very fine and rather sparse, those on clypeus also fine and sparse, face above antennae densely tessellate, without visible punctures; cheeks somewhat shining, with very minute and rather sparse punctures; pubescence of head and thorax rather short, thin, erect, somewhat yellowish above, becoming whitish beneath; thorax without pale maculations; scutum and scutellum densely tessellate, punctures extremely minute and vague, hardly visible, pleura somewhat more shining, with minute and rather sparse, evenly distributed punctures; propodeum finely tessellate and impunctate; tegulae yellowishhyaline; wings faintly dusky, veins and stigma testaceous; legs dark, front tibiae with an anterior yellow stripe, and apical tarsal segments on front legs somewhat yellowish; abdominal terga 2-4 with lateral, widely separated, basal, whitish maculations, basal tergum with a pair of submedian, transverse, narrow stripes, apical margins of the terga rather narrowly depressed, these areas somewhat paler in color, discs of the terga with exceedingly minute and rather vague punctures, these somewhat closer on the more apical segments.

MALE—Length 5 mm.; head and thorax green, abdomen reddish-piceous, maculations bright yellow; face considerably longer than distance between eyes; eyes subparallel; cheeks very slightly narrower than eyes; vertex rather broad, but hind margin indefinite, lateral ocelli subequally distant from eyes and each other; foveae very small but deep and distinct; mandibles, labrum and clypeus bright yellow, mandibles becoming ferruginous apically; facial maculae large and conspicuous, filling area between lower portion of clypeus and eyes, extending up margin of eye to level of antennae, where they terminate obliquely; scape yellow anteriorly, flagellum yellowish testaceous beneath, more brownish-piceous above; face below antennae quite smooth but without evident punctures, area above antennae densely tessellate, dull and impunctate, cheeks more shining, with minute and rather close punctures; pubescence of head and thorax very short, rather thin and entirely white; thorax entirely green, without maculations; scutum and scutellum densely tessellate, punctures exceedingly minute and obscure, hardly visible; pleura more shining, with a few scattered, minute and vague punctures, propodeum rather smooth, finely tessellate and impunctate; tegulae testaceous-hyaline; wings subhyaline, veins and stigma pale testaceous, stigma margined with brown; coxae and trochanters yellow, but hind coxae with dark, basal areas, femora piceous over most of length, but with yellow base and apex, front pair yellow anteriorly; front and mid tibiae yellow anteriorly, piceous posteriorly, hind tibiae and tarsi entirely dark, front and mid tarsi entirely yellow; abdominal terga 1-5 with transverse, sub basal, narrow maculae, those rather widely separated along mid line, the pair on 5th tergum quite small; discs of terga quite smooth, the more basal plates impunctate, but with exceedingly minute and rather sparse punctures becoming evident on the more apical segments, apical rims very narrowly depressed; apical margin of sternum 6 rather narrowly and deeply emarginate medially; sterna 7 and 8 much as in polygonellae (fig- 00); gonocoxites of genital armature somewhat bulbous, narrowly truncate apically, gonostyli rather slender apically, but the base compressed, about attaining tip of penis valves which are slender apically, broadly dilated toward base where they are angulate laterally, volsellae with distinct, somewhat compressed cuspis and slightly shorter digitus.

DISTRIBUTION — Coastal Plain and Sandhills of North Carolina; September and October.

FLOWER RECORDS—Haplopappus.


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Asteraceae  Aplopappus sp @ BBSL (1)

Haplopappus sp @ BBSL (1)

Isocoma @ UCRC_ENT (3)

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