Diadasia (Dasiapis) ochracea (Cockerell, 1903)

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 : 162

Diadasia (Dasiapis) ochracea (Cockerell, 1903)

[ ♂ Syntype: Las Cruces , New Mexico, USA; end of August]

This species is widely distributed in Mexico and the southwestern USA. D. ochracea specializes on pollen from plants in the genera Sphaeralcea A. St. -Hil. and Malacothamnus Green in the family Malvaceae (Sipes & Tepedino 2005) . AMNH and UCRC report preserved specimen records from the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland ( GBIF 2023; SCAN 2023). We reviewed five specimens from the Tropical Dry Forest (1 ♀), Cape Mountains (1 ♀), Gulf Coast (2 ♂) and Central Desert (1 ♂; CASC). Additionally, the CARCIB team collected one male in the Magdalena Plains in October 2016.And the BBPT collected 72 females and 79 males in several localities of the Coastal Sage Matorral, and one female in the Baja California Mountains at Sierra Juarez (Supplementary material 1). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 97.