Diadasia (Dasiapis) tropicalis (Cockerell, 1918)

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 : 163

Diadasia (Dasiapis) tropicalis (Cockerell, 1918) *

[ ♀ Pueblo Viejo , Veracruz, Mexico; December 8, 1909]

This species is primarily restricted to Neotropical regions and it constitutes a new record on the BCP. This species specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Sida L. ( Malvaceae ) (Sipes & Tepedino 2005). It was first recorded in the Gulf Coast ecoregion of BCS in 2017 by the CARCIB team. See fig. 98.