Species Megachile rugosa Smith, 1879
- Megachile rugosa Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [65].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2342 ♂, WA.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Flower visiting record: Atalaya hemiglauca F. Muell. ex Benth. [Sapindaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].
General References
King, J. 1994. The bee family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Australia. I. Morphology of the genus Chalicodoma Lepeletier, and a revision of the subgenus Hackeriapis Cockerell. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8(6): 1373-1419 [1373] (not included in Hackeriapis)
Meade-Waldo, G. 1912. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 461-478 [Date published 31/12/1912] (taxonomy)
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