Diadasia
| Diadasia | |
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| Diadasia diminuta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Tribe: | Emphorini |
| Genus: | Diadasia Patton, 1879 |
Diadasia bee on its back foraging in a Opuntia engelmannii flower, as well as sitting in the same flower
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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]
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Wikispecies has information related to: Diadasia |
- ↑ 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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