Diadasia (Coquillettapis) lutzi Cockerell 1924

Diadasia (Coquillettapis) lutzi Cockerell, 1924 [Holotype: AMNH; ♂ Green River about 1859 mts, Wyoming, USA; July 2, 1920] Diadasia lutzi is distributed in the western USA and northern Mexico. This species specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Sphaeralcea A. St. - Hil. (Malvaceae) (Sipes & Tepedino 2005). In the BCP, it has been recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral, Succulent Coastal Matorral, Central Desert (BC), and Magdalena Plains (BCS) regions. TEMU and SEMC, report preserved specimen records collected in the Magdalena Plains in June, 1973, and April 1994 (GBIF 2023), additionally UCRC reported specimens collected in the Central Desert in 1949. We reviewed two females collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in April 1939 (CASC). Additionally, the BBPT collected 17 specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral in May 2020 (3 ♀, 3 ♂) in Succulent Coastal Matorral in March 2021 (11 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 94.