Superfamily APOIDEA 1877 



Perdita baileyae Cockerell, 1909. Canad. Ent. 41: 151. 6. 



Taxonomy: Cockerell, 1897. Ann. Mag. and Nat. Hist. (6) 19: 398. 6. — Timberlake, 1953. 

 Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 35: 975 (tax. characters). —Timberlake, 1954. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 

 9: 387, 389, 395 (key, tax. characters). -Timberlake, 1956. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 11: 327 

 (synonymy, tax. status). 



perpulchra punctissima Timberlake. Tex. (Bexar, Wood, Robertson, Lamar Counties). Pollen: 

 Unknown, but visits flowers of Heterothpca subaxillaris. 

 Perdita perpulchra ptmctissima Timberlake, 1956. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 11: 327. 9, 6. 

 pulchella Timberlake. Tex. (Carrizo Springs). 



Perdita pulchella Timberlake, 1954. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 9: 393. 9. 

 purpurascens Timberlake. Tex. Pollen: Unknown, but visits flowers of Aster tanacetifolius, 

 Brazoria truncata, Gaillardia, Monarda. 

 Perdita purpurascens Timberlake, 1956. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 11: 328. 6 . 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 382-383. 9 (tax. characters, geogr. 

 and floral records). 

 scopata Timberlake. Gulf Coast of Tex. (Galveston to Brownsville). Pollen: Unknown, but 

 visits flowers of Coreopsis, Helianthus annuus. 

 Perdita scopata Timberlake, 1953. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 35: 980. 9,6. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1954. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 9: 401, fig. 88 (tax. characters). 

 shinnersi Timberlake. Tex. Pollen: Unknown, but visits flowers o{ Brazoria truncata. 

 Coreopsis basalis, Gaillardia, Hymenopappus artemisaefolius, Monarda. 

 Perdita shi^inersi Timberlake, 1956. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 11: 326. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 383 (geogr. and floral records). 

 tricincta Timberlake. South. Tex. (Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr Counties). Pollen: Unknown, 

 but visits flowers of Helianthus anriuus. This may prove to be a race of Perdita 

 albipennis Cress. 

 Perdita tricincta Timberlake, 1953. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 35: 978. 9, cJ. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1954. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 9: 388, 390, 400, fig. 86 (key, tax. 

 status). 

 utahensis Cockerell. N. Mex. (Rodeo), Ariz. (Tucson), southwest. Utah, south. Calif. (Colorado 

 Desert). Pollen: Unknown, but visits flowers of Pectis papposa, Tidestromia, Verbesina 

 encelioides. 

 Perdita utahensis Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 106. 9. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1953. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. 35: 974. 6. —Timberlake, 1954. Calif. 



Univ. Pubs. Ent. 9: 387, 391, 394, figs. 76, 155 (tax. characters, geogr. and floral records). 



—Timberlake, 1968. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 49: 20 (geogr. and floral records). 

 verbesinae Cockerell. Tex. (Barstow), N. Mex. (Deming and Las Cruces), Ariz. (Douglas, 



Portal, Tucson and Santa Rita Mts.); Mexico (Chihuahua). Pollen: Usually visits flowers 

 of Verbesiiia encelioides, but has been recorded from the flowers o{ Helianthus. 



Perdita verbesinae Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 102. 9,3. 



Perdita verbesinae mut. intermedia Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 103. 9. 



Perdita verbesinae mut. nigrior Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 103. 9. 



Perdita verbesinae mut. cyanella Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 104. 6. 



Perdita verbesinae mut. maculata Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 104. 6. 



Taxonomy: Cockerell, 1899. Psyche 8: 323 (color variation). —Timberlake, 1954. Calif. Univ. 

 Pubs. Ent. 9: 388, 391, 397, fig. 81 (key, tax. characters, geogr. and floral records). 



Genus PERDITA Subgenus COCKERELLULA Strand 



Perdita subg. Lutziella Cockerell, 1922. Amer. Mus. Novitates 47: 1. Preocc. 



Type-species: Perdita (Lutziella) opuntiae Cockerell. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 Perdita subg. Cockerellula Strand, 1932. Folia Zool. Hydrobiol. Riga 4: 196. N. name. 



