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zonalis monticola Timberlake. Calif. (Sierra, Shasta, Nevada, Plumas and Placer Counties). 

 Pollen: Unknown, but visits flowers of Chrysothamnus, Solidago. 

 Perdita zonalis monticola Timberlake, 1958 Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 345. 9, d. 

 zonalis pallescens Timberlake. Calif. Pollen: Unknown, but visits flowers of Gutierrezia 

 iiicida, Haplopappus acradenius. 

 Perdita zonalis pallescens Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 344. 9, cJ. 

 zonalis zonalis Cresson. Calif. (Riverside and Kern Counties). Pollen: Unknown, but visits 

 flowers of Eriogonum, Gutierrezia califomica, Lepidospartum squamatum. 

 Perdita zonalis Cresson, 1879. Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 7: 202. 9 . 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1929. Pan-Pacific Ent. 6: 49. 9, cJ. —Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. 

 Pubs. Ent. 14: 308, 313, 343-344 (key, redescription, geogr. and floral records). 

 —Timberlake, 1968. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 49: 41, 43 (key). 



Species Group Halictoides 



The species of this group collect pollen from flowers of the solanaceous genera Physalis and 

 Chamaesaracha, but visit these and other flowers for nectar. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 365-367 (tax. characters, key to 

 included spp.). —Timberlake, 1962. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 28: 1 (key). —Timberlake, 1968. 

 Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 49: 57-59 (key to included spp.). 

 beameri Timberlake. Tex. Pollen: Collects pollen from the flowers of Chamaesaracha including 

 C. conioides, but visits other flowers for nectar including Astragalus, Gilia acerosa, 

 Physalis lobata. 

 Perdita beameri Timberlake, 1964. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 28: 276, figs. 56, 1041, 1042, 

 1164. 9, S. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1968. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 49: 57, 59 (key, geogr. and floral 

 records). 

 chamaesarachae Cockerell. N. Mex. (Albuquerque, High Rolls, Las Vegas, Roswell and Santa 

 Fe), Ariz. (Cochise and Yavapai Counties); Mexico (Durango). Pollen: Apparently 

 collects pollen from the flowers of Chamaesaracha coronopus, but visits other flowers 

 including Physalis. 

 Perdita chamaesarachae Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 65. S, 9. 



Taxonomy: Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 367, 371, figs. 450, 451, 509 (key, 

 redescription, geogr. and floral records). —Timberlake, 1968. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 49: 58, 

 59 (key). 



fidissima Timberlake. Tex. (Kenedy County). Pollen: Unknown, but visits flowers of 



Parkinsonia. 

 Perdita fidissima Timberlake, 1968. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 49: 59. 9. 

 halictoides Smith. Wis., Mich, and Ind., west to N. Dak., Colo., and Tex.; Fla. Pollen: Unknown, 



but visits flowers of Euphorbia nuttallii, Gaillardia, Monarda punctata var. 



occidentalis, Physalis heterophylla, P. lanceolata, Solidago. 

 Perdita halictoides Smith, 1853. Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., v. 1, p. 128. 9 . 

 Perdita sexmaculata var. punctata Cockerell, 1896. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 48: 71. 9. 

 Perdita maura Cockerell, 1901. Entomologist 34: 191. cJ, 9. 

 Perdita bisignata Cockerell, 1922. Amer. Mus. Novitates 33: 11. 9. 



Taxonomy: Cockerell, 1904. Canad. Ent. 36: 303. —Timberlake, 1928. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc. 

 7: 155. —Cockerell, 1922. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 10: 268 (tax. characters, as maura). 

 —Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 14: 366, 367, 370-371, figs. 448, 449, 508 

 (redescription, key, geogr. and floral records, as maura). —Timberlake, 1958. Calif. Univ. 

 Pubs. Ent. 14: 366, 371. 9 (key, redescription). -Timberlake, 1960. Calif. Univ. Pubs. Ent. 

 17: 135 (synonymy, geogr. records). —Mitchell, 1960. N. C. Agr. Expt. Sta. Tech. Bui. 141: 

 318-319, figs. 76-79, table 9 (redescription, synonymy). —Timberlake, 1968. Calif. Univ. 

 Pubs. Ent. 49: 57, 58 (key). 



