Diadasia (Coquillettapis) diminuta ( Cresson, 1878 )

Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5522 (1), pp. 1-391 : 156

Diadasia (Coquillettapis) diminuta ( Cresson, 1878)

[ Syntypes: ♂ Morrison , Colorado, USA]

Diadasia diminuta can be found throughout the entire length of the BCP following the distribution of its host plants in the genus Sphaeralcea A. St. - Hil. and Malacothamnus Greene ( Malvaceae ) (Sipes & Tepedino 2005). This species was previously recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Chaparral, Lower Colorado Desert, and Central Deserts. There are preserved specimen records in the CNIN, UCRC, and INHS. The CARCIB team collected five females and two males in the Vizcaíno Desert, Magdalena Plains and Gulf Coast in September 2016. Additionally, the BBPT collected 64 specimens (44 ♀, 20 ♂) in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Chaparral, Baja California Mountains, Central Desert , Gulf Coast, and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (Supplementary material 1). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 94.