Nocturnal-foraging-adaptation
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Perdita bequaertiana
Perdita bequaertiana is a solitary mining bee in the family Andrenidae, first described by Cockerell in 1951. It belongs to the subgenus Perdita (Xerophasma), which is endemic to the Mojave Desert region of western North America. The species has been the subject of recent taxonomic revision that provided new distributional records. Members of this subgenus show evolutionary trends toward nocturnal foraging and pale coloration.