Diadasia

Diadasia
Diadasia diminuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Diadasia
Patton, 1879

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.[1]

References

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  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.


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