Diadasia

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Diadasia
Diadasia diminuta1.jpg
Diadasia diminuta
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Tribe: Emphorini
Genus: Diadasia
Patton, 1879
Diadasia bee straddles cactus flower carpels
Diadasia bee on its back foraging in an Opuntia engelmannii flower, as well as sitting in the same flower
Diadasia visiting yellow prickly-pear cactus from two angles, Mojave desert

Diadasia is a genus of bees in family Apidae. Species of Diadasia are oligolectic, specialized on a relatively small number of plant species. 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]

Species[]

These 42 species belong to the genus Diadasia.[3][4][5]

  • (Cresson, 1878)
  • Cockerell, 1910
  • Provancher, 1896
  • (Holmberg, 1903)
  • Timberlake, 1939
  • Diadasia australis (Cresson, 1878)
  • (Vachal, 1904)
  • (Holmberg, 1903)
  • Diadasia bituberculata (Cresson, 1878)
  • (Moure, 1947)
  • (Spinola, 1851)
  • Timberlake, 1939
  • Diadasia diminuta (Cresson, 1878) (globe mallow bee)
  • (Spinola, 1851)
  • Diadasia enavata (Cresson, 1872) (sunflower chimney bee)
  • Cockerell, 1898
  • (Jörgensen, 1912)
  • Cockerell, 1917
  • Cockerell, 1905
  • Cockerell, 1924
  • (Brèthes, 1910)
  • Timberlake, 1940
  • Cockerell, 1898
  • (Brèthes, 1910)
  • Timberlake, 1956
  • (Cresson, 1878)
  • Cockerell, 1905
  • Diadasia ochracea (Cockerell, 1903) (ochraceous chimney bee)
  • (Cresson, 1878)
  • Cockerell, 1901
  • Timberlake, 1940
  • (Brèthes, 1910)
  • (Holmberg, 1903)
  • Cockerell, 1911
  • Diadasia rinconis Cockerell, 1897
  • (Vachal, 1909)
  • Cockerell, 1905
  • (Cresson, 1878)
  • (Cockerell, 1918)
  • Timberlake, 1939
  • Timberlake, 1940
  • (Moure, 1947)

References[]

  1. ^ Sipes, Sedonia D.; Tepedino, Vincent J. (2005). "Pollen-host specificity and evolutionary patterns of host switching in a clade of specialist bees (Apoidea: Diadasia)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 86 (4): 487–505. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00544.x.
  2. ^ https://www.desertmuseum.org/books/nhsd_bees.php
  3. ^ "Diadasia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  4. ^ "Diadasia Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  5. ^ "Browse Diadasia". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.


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