Species Megachile fumipennis Smith, 1868

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• Megachile fumipennis Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868] [257].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2350 ♀, Champion Bay (Geraldton), WA.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Southern Cross, Champion Bay and Tennant Creek.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Bees of the genus Megachile from Australia. The Entomologist 46: 164-168 [Date published 31/12/1913] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] (distribution)

King, J. 1986. The systematics of some Australian Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Unpubl. PhD Thesis. Brisbane : Univ. of Queensland. 439 pp. (distribution)

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)

King, J. & Exley, E.M. 1985. A revision of Chalicodoma (Chalicodomoides) Michener (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 24: 187-191 [Date published 31/12/1985] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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