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Diadasia tropicalis (Cockerell, 1918)
Dasiapis tropicalis
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1918). Neotropical bees, principally collected by Professor Bruner in Argentina. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 44: 25-38 [27] .
Type data: holotype USNM 22925 <F>.
Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz, Pueblo Viejo.
Exomalospsis (Anthophorula) nitidicincta
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1949). Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98: 429-490 [455] .
Type data: holotype USNM 58514 <M>.
Type locality: Honduras, Zamorano.
Melissodes spilognathus
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1949). Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98: 429-490 [468] .
Type data: holotype USNM 58570 <F>.
Type locality: Honduras, Zamorano.
Melissodes tenuicincta
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1949). Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98: 429-490 [464] .
Type data: holotype USNM 58546 <F>.
Type locality: Honduras, Zamorano.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz)
References
LaBerge, W. E. (1956). A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part. I (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 37 (18): 912-1194 [1179] (New combination, as Diadasia spilognathus [sic] and D. tenuicincta)
Lutz, F. E. & Cockerell, T. D. A. (1920). Notes on distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 491-641 [584] (Catalog)
Michener, C. D. & Moure, J. S. (1957). A study of the classification of the more primitive non-parasitic anthophorine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 112 (5): 395-452 [450] (Note on genus assignment, as Diadasia nitidicincta)
Snelling, R. R. (1994). Diadasia, subgenus Dasiapis, in North America (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 448: 1-8 [2, 6] (Key, synonymy, note on type material, comparative notes, flower record, distribution records)
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