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Diadasia sphaeralcearum Cockerell, 1905
Diadasia sphaeralcearum affinis Timberlake, 1939; Diadasia (Coquillettapis) sphaeralcearum affinis Timberlake, 1939, valid subspecies

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Subgenus: Coquillettapis


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Species account taken from "Diadasia Patton; A Genus of Bees Author(s): T. D. A. Cockerell Source: The American Naturalist, Vol. 39, No. 466 (Oct., 1905), pp. 741-745"


Male:Length 7.5 mm. ; like D. dimituta Cr., but with shorter, perfectly white pubescence, and a narrower, more parallel-sided abdomen; the pubescence of the abdomen, instead of being loose and suberect as in male diminuta, is appressed (except on first segment) and covers the surface aside from the pubescence, the hind margins of the segments are themselves white; the apex is bidentate, the teeth being like those of diminuta, but rather larger; hind legs constructed as in diminuta shining hairless triangle of metathorax much smaller than in dimizla ; posterior part of mesothorax almost nude tegulae subhyaline, ferruginous, dark at base; antenna entirely black.


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Natural history
Floral hosts used by this species in the the San Bernardino Valley (31o 19’N, 109o 15’ W) in northeastern Sonora, Mexico and southeastern Arizona, USA are listed at www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/labs/Minckley/minckley_table.php.

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www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/labs/Minckley/minckley_table.php

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FamilyScientific name @ source (records)
Asteraceae  Baileya pleniradiata @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Calycoseris wrightii @ UCRC_ENT (1)

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Lamiaceae  Teucrium depressum @ UCRC_ENT (1)
Malvaceae  Malva sp @ BBSL (2)

Sphaeralcea ambigua @ UCRC_ENT (2)

Sphaeralcea angustifolia @ UCRC_ENT (18)

Sphaeralcea emoryi @ UCRC_ENT (43)

Sphaeralcea orcuttii @ UCRC_ENT (7)

Sphaeralcea sp @ BBSL (6)

Sphaeralcea @ AMNH_BEE (19); UCRC_ENT (16)
Zygophyllaceae  Kallstroemia grandiflora @ UCRC_ENT (2)
_  Withheld @ BBSL (19)

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