Diadasia rinconis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Apidae |
Tribe: | Emphorini |
Genus: | Diadasia |
Species: | D. rinconis
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Binomial name | |
Diadasia rinconis Cockerell, 1897
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Diadasia rinconis is a species of chimney bee in the family Apidae. It is found in Central America and North America. [1] [2] [3] In the Sonoran Desert, D. rinconis is considered the "cactus bee" as it feeds almost exclusively on a number of Sonoran Desert cactus species, its life cycle revolving around the flowering of the native species of cacti. [4]
These two subspecies belong to the species Diadasia rinconis: