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Perdita albopicta Timberlake, 1958
Life   Insecta   Hymenoptera   Apoidea   Andrenidae   Perdita
Subgenus: Perdita


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Identification
Extracted from: 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 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) Part III. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles 1958, Volume 14, No. 5, pp. 303-410, plates 4-15.

This species is remarkable for the pallidity and extent of its markings. The abdomen is creamy white with only three narrow dark bands, and the supraclypeal mark is large and rounded above, so that it intrudes strongly between the antennal sockets.

Female.—Head and thorax dark green, the propodeum slightly bluish. Mandibles except red tips, labrum, clypeus, lateral marks, and supraclypeal mark yellowish white; lateral marks ending broadly above at level of antennae, but with a slender extension between nearly the lower half of the fovea and the margin of eye on each cide; clypeus entirely light except for the usual pair of dark dots. Pronotum yellowish white, with a large, triangular greenish mark on each flank. Abdomen creamy white, with a narrow fuscous band at apex of tergites 1 to 3, that on tergite 2, and especially that on tergite 3 abbreviated. Legs pale yellow, the anterior coxae fuscous except at apex, and the three apical joints of hind tarsi pale fuscous. Scape of antennae and the pedicel except above pale yellow, the flagellum brown, becoming pale brownish yellow beneath. Tegulae hyaline, with the base yellowish white. Wings milky hyaline, the nervures whitish, the subcosta and margins of stigma pale yellowish.

Head somewhat broader than long. Mandibles subdilated within and narrowing to apex without formation of an inner tooth. Proboscis moderate in length, and when folded in repose not exceeding the proboscidial fossa. Facial foveae moderately wide or less tfian one fourth as wide as space between eye and nearest antennal socket, and reaching from level of middle of antennal sockets about two thirds of distance to level of anterior ocellus. Pygidial platemoderately large, the apex rather narrow and rounded. Frons strongly tessellate, dull, and with fine close punctures over nearly the whole area between antennae and ocelli. Mesonotum polished, with moderately close punctures. Pubescence whitish (much damaged in type), the hair of mesonotum rather short and erect. Length 5 mm.; anterior wing, 3.6 mm.

One female (holotype), Kanosh, Millard County, Utah, on Chrysothamnus, Sept. 8, 1954 (G. F. Knowlton), in collection of the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside.


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