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Perdita (bee)
''Perdita'' is a large genus of small bees native to North America, particularly diverse in the desert regions of the United States and Mexico. There are over 600 currently recognized species of ''Perdita'', plus more than 100 additional subspecies and many more species that remain undescribed. ''Perdita'' are usually quite small (2.0 mm to 10.0 mm) and often brightly colored with metallic reflections and/or yellow or white markings, and among the few lineages of bees incapable of stinging. The genus was extensively treated by P.H. Timberlake Philip Hunter Timberlake (1883-1981) was one of the most prolific American entomologists of the 20th century. He was born on June 5, 1883 in Bethel, Maine, and died in 1981 in Riverside, California, where he had served as an Associate Entomologis ... who, in addition to T.D.A. Cockerell, described most of the known species. Most species are extreme specialists ( oligoleges) with respect to pollen and will only collect pollen fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita Albihirta
Perdita (Italian for "loss", from Latin for "lost woman"), may refer to: People *Perdita Barran, English chemist *Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author *Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete *Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist *Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist *Perdita Weeks (born 1985), English actress Science * ''Perdita'' (genus), a genus of North American native bees *Perdita (moon), a minor satellite of the planet Uranus Fiction * Perdita (''The Winter's Tale''), the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''The Winter's Tale'' *Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel ''And Berry Came Too'' by Dornford Yates *Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' *Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, character in the ''Witches'' subset of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series *Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character from the TV series ''The Haunting of Bly Manor'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |