Perdita austini (Austin’s Fairy Bee) | Natural Heritage New Mexico

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Hymenoptera

Family: Andrenidae

Genus: Perdita

Species: austini

Austin’s Fairy Bee - Perdita austini

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

Global Rank: GNR

State Rank: S2

Rank Metadata
State Rank: S2	Rank Changed: 05/09/2025
Rank Reviewed: N/A
Reason: This species historically has been recorded in many different New Mexico localities which has given it a fairly large Extent of Occurrence of 39,525km2. However, it is very infrequently recorded and as a result has an Area of Occupancy of just 18km2 and is only known from eleven occurrences. Additionally, the species has only been recorded once in the last two decades although it is unlikely that much surveying has been done. This one record was picked up at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Redufe which has a robust bee monitoring program and despite that they have only picked up the species one time. The threats to it are currently unknown but it is likely threatened by climate change and drought both of which are severe in the species range. As a result, this species is currently assessed as S2 in New Mexico however, a reassesment should be done if more information becomes available.

Ecological Factors
Specificity: Unknown	Range Extent: 20,000-200,000 square km (about 8000-80,000 square miles)
Occurences: 6 - 20	Population Size: Unknown
Area of Occupancy: An Area of Occupancy of 18km2 was calculated on GeoCat using data collected for the NM-RARe project.	Threat Summary: N/A

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SWAP Status: SGCN

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Number of Subpopulations: 12

Number of Mapped Locations: 266

Number of Observations: 138

Observation date range: 09-04-1930 to 10-01-2014

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