Biology:Perdita scutellaris
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Andrenidae |
| Genus: | Perdita |
| Species: | P. scutellaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Perdita scutellaris Timberlake, 1962
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Perdita scutellaris is a bee species from California in the United States. It is only found in sand dune habitats or other sandy areas. It is oligolectic, collecting pollen only from plants in the genus Tiquilia.
References
Timberlake, Philip H. (1962). "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 V". University of California Publications in Entomology 28 (1): 1–124.
Portman, Zachary M.; Neff, John L.; Griswold, Terry (2016). "Taxonomic revision of Perdita subgenus Heteroperdita Timberlake (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), with descriptions of two ant-like males". Zootaxa 4213 (1): 1–97. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4214.1.1. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4214.1.1.
Wikidata ☰ Q2209267 entry
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