Diadasia
Genus of bees
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Diadasia is a genus of bees in the family Apidae. Its species are oligolectic, specialized on a relatively small number of plant species.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Tribe: | Emphorini |
| Genus: | Diadasia Patton, 1879 |
Their host plants include asters, bindweeds, cacti, mallows, and willowherbs, although mallows are the most common and likely ancestral host plant for the whole genus. Its tribe is Emphorini.[1] In the Sonoran Desert, Diadasia rinconis is considered the "cactus bee" as it feeds almost exclusively on a number of Sonoran Desert cactus species, its life cycle revolving around the flowering of the native species of cacti.[2]
Members of this genus are often attacked by a variety of parasitoids from the families Bombyliidae, Mutillidae, Ripiphoridae and Meloidae.[3]
Species
These 42 species belong to the genus Diadasia.[4][5][6]
- Diadasia afflicta (Cresson, 1878)
- Diadasia afflictula Cockerell, 1910
- Diadasia albovestita Provancher, 1896
- Diadasia andina (Holmberg, 1903)
- Diadasia angusticeps Timberlake, 1939
- Diadasia australis (Cresson, 1878)
- Diadasia baeri (Vachal, 1904)
- Diadasia baraderensis (Holmberg, 1903)
- Diadasia bituberculata (Cresson, 1878)
- Diadasia bosqi (Moure, 1947)
- Diadasia chilensis (Spinola, 1851)
- Diadasia consociata Timberlake, 1939
- Diadasia diminuta (Cresson, 1878) (globe mallow bee)
- Diadasia distinguenda (Spinola, 1851)
- Diadasia enavata (Cresson, 1872) (sunflower chimney bee)
- Diadasia friesei Cockerell, 1898
- Diadasia hirta (Jörgensen, 1912)
- Diadasia knabiana Cockerell, 1917
- Diadasia laticauda Cockerell, 1905
- Diadasia lutzi Cockerell, 1924
- Diadasia lynchii (Brèthes, 1910)
- Diadasia martialis Timberlake, 1940
- Diadasia megamorpha Cockerell, 1898
- Diadasia mendozana (Brèthes, 1910)
- Diadasia mexicana Timberlake, 1956
- Diadasia nigrifrons (Cresson, 1878)
- Diadasia nitidifrons Cockerell, 1905
- Diadasia ochracea (Cockerell, 1903) (ochraceous chimney bee)
- Diadasia olivacea (Cresson, 1878)
- Diadasia opuntiae Cockerell, 1901
- Diadasia palmarum Timberlake, 1940
- Diadasia patagonica (Brèthes, 1910)
- Diadasia pereyrae (Holmberg, 1903)
- Diadasia piercei Cockerell, 1911
- Diadasia rinconis Cockerell, 1897
- Diadasia ruficruris (Vachal, 1909)
- Diadasia sphaeralcearum Cockerell, 1905
- Diadasia toluca (Cresson, 1878)
- Diadasia tropicalis (Cockerell, 1918)
- Diadasia tuberculifrons Timberlake, 1939
- Diadasia vallicola Timberlake, 1940
- Diadasia willineri (Moure, 1947)
