Superfamily APOIDEA 2123 



palmarum Timberlake. South. Calif, desert. Pollen: Collects pollen from flowers of 

 Sphaeralcea. 

 Diadasia palmarum Timberlake, 1940. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 35: 27. cJ, 9. 



piercei Cockerell. Tex., Ariz. 



Diadasia piercei Cockerell, 1911. Canad. Ent. 43: 132. 6,9. 

 rinconis mimetica Cockerell. Calif, (isl. off coast). Pollen: Collects pollen from flowers of 

 Opuntia. Another subspecies (petrina) is known from Baja California. 

 Diadasia australis mimetica Cockerell, 1924. Pan-Pacific Ent. 1: 53. 9. 

 rinconis rinconis Cockerell. Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., Calif; Mexico (Baja California). Pollen: 

 Collects pollen from flowers of Opuntia. 

 Diadasia rijiconis Cockerell, 1897. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 154. 9. 

 Diadasia rinco7ii{\) Snow, 1906. Kans. Acad. Sci., Trans. 20: 137. 

 sphaeralcearum affinis Timberlake. Tex. to south. Calif, and Nev. Pollen: Collects pollen from 

 flowers of Sphaeralcea. 

 Diadasia sphaeralcearum affinis Timberlake, 1939. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 34: 14. 6, 9. 

 sphaeralcearum sphaeralcearum Cockerell. N. Mex., Ariz. Pollen: Collects pollen from flowers 

 of Sphaeralcea. 

 Diadasia sphaeralcearum Cockerell, 1905. Amer. Nat. 39: 744. 6. 



Taxonomy: Michener, 1937. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 19: 403. 9. 

 tuberculifrons Timberlake. Ariz., Calif., Nev. Pollen: Collects pollen from flowers of 

 Sphaeralcea. 

 Diadasia tuberculifrons Timberlake, 1939. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 34: 13. d, 9. 

 vallicola Timberlake. Ariz., Calif.; Mexico (Baja California). Parasite: Rhipiphonis diadasiae 

 Linsley and MacSwain, Sphaeropthalma blakei Fox, Villa sp. near flavipilosa Cole. 

 Pollen: Collects pollen from flowers of Sphaeralcea. 

 Diadasia vallicola Timberlake, 1940. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 35: 24. S. 



Biology: Hall and Hurd In Linsley and MacSwain, 1957. Wasmann Jour. Biol. 15: 217-218 

 (nest, parasites). 

 vestita Timberlake. N. Mex. (Rio Puerco in Bernalillo Co.). 



Diadasia vestita Timberlake, 1956. Pan-Pacific Ent. 32: 91. 6. 



Genus MELITOMA Lepeletier and Scrville 



Melitoma Lepeletier and Serville, 1828. Encycl. Meth., Hist. Nat. Ins., v. 10, p. 529. 



Type-species: Melitoma etiglossoides Lepeletier and Serville. Monotypic. 

 Entechnia Patton, 1879. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey, Bui. 5: 476. 



Type-species: Anthophora taurea Say. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 Meliphila Schrottky, 1902. Buenos Aires Mus. Nac. de Hist. Nat. An. 7: 310. 



Type-species: Apis segmentana Fabricius. Monotypic and orig. desig. {=Meliphila 

 ipomoeae Schrottky and Melitoma euglossoides Lepeletier and Serville). 



All species visit flowers of Ipomoea for pollen and nectar, but also visit a wide variety of 

 other flowers for nectar. 



grisella (Cockerell and Porter). N. Dak., Nebr., Kans., Colo., N. Mex. 



E7itechiia grisella Cockerell and Porter, 1899. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 4: 409. 3. 

 Entechnia dakotensis Cockerell and Porter, 1899. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 4: 409. 9. 



Biology: Hungerford and Williams, 1912. Ent. News 23: 258. —Cockerell, 1934. Amer. Mus. 

 Novitates 697: 10. —Linsley, 1960. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 68: 17-18 (floral relationships). 

 segmentaria (Fabricius). Tex. to Argentina. Parasite: Anthrax cintalapa Cole, 



Monodontomerus mandibularis Gahan, Trophocleptria sckraderi Michener? 

 Apis segmentaria Fabricius, 1804. Systema Piezatorum, p. 371. 9. 

 Melitoma euglossoides Lepeletier and Serville, 1828. Encyl. Meth., Hist. Nat. Ins. v. 10, p. 



529. 

 Anthophora fulvifrons Smith, 1854. Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., v. 2, p. 341. 

 Melissodes^ marginella Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 282. 6,9. 

 Meliphilia ipomoeae Schrottky, 1902. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, An. 7: 311. 



