Diadasina distincta (Holmberg, 1903)
Female lateral view (MLP) Photo: M.Lucia
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Solitary bees, soil excavators
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- Mendoza
- Misiones
- Río Negro
- Salta
- San Juan
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay
- Ancyloscelis analis Vachal, 1904
- Ptilothrix adolphi Strand, 1910
- Melitoma paraensis Ducke, 1912
- Diadasia paraensis monticola Moure, 1944
Females of Heterostylum hirsutum (Thunberg) (Diptera: Bombyliidae) were observed hovering and depositing eggs over a large nesting aggregation of Diadasina distincta (Torretta et al. 2021).
Picris echioides, Ludwigia bonariensis and Ludwigia peploides (Ramello et al. 2021)
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- JÖRGENSEN, P. 1912a. Los crisídidos y los hymenopteros aculeatos de la Província de Mendoza. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 22: 267-338
- JÖRGENSEN, P. 1912b. Revision der Apiden der Provinz Mendoza, Republica Argentina (Hym.). Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 32: 89-162
- SCHROTTKY, C. 1913. La distribución geográfica de los himenópteros argentinos. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 75: 180-286
- HAZELDINE, P.L. 1997a. Comportamiento de nidificación de Diadasina distincta (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 56: 125-130.
- ROIG-ALSINA, A. 1998b. Sinopsis generica de la tribu Emphorini, com la descripción de tres nuevos géneros (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Physis (B. Aires) 56 (130-131): 17–25
- TORRETTA, J.P. & POGGIO, S.L. . 2013. Species diversity of entomophilous plants and flower-visiting insects is sustained in the field margins of sunflower crops. Boston J. Nat. Hist. 47 (1-3): 139-165
- MAZZEO, N. M., & TORRETTA, J. P. 2015. Wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in an urban botanical garden in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 50(3), 182-193.
- RAMELLO, P.J., ALVAREZ, L.J., ALMADA, V. AND LUCIA, M. 2021. The melittofauna and its floral associations in a natural riparian forest in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.J. Api. Res, 60(2): 241-254
- TORRETTA, J. P., HAEDO, J. P., MARRERO, H. J., & LAMAS, C. J. 2021. New austral-most records of the genus ) Heterostylum Macquart (Diptera: Bombyiliidae) in Argentina. Zootaxa, 4990(3), 583-586.
- TORRETTA, J. P., MARRERO, H. J., GONZÁLEZ-VAQUERO, R., & GARIBALDI, L. A. 2023. Solitary bees in Pampean agroecosystems: a review about current status of knowledge. Journal of Apicultural Research. 1-20.
- RAMELLO, P. J., ALMADA, V., CUESTA, G., ALVAREZ, L. J., AGUIRRE, M. S., CHANCAY, N., ... & LUCIA, M. 2024. Diversity of bees during flowering of onion crops in a xeric environment. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argentina. 83(4): 58-64.
- ROIG-ALSINA, A. 2025. A revision of the Neotropical bee genus Diadasina Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Emphorini). J. of Melittology. 133: 1-19
