Species Megachile paracallida Rayment, 1935
- Megachile paracallida Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. [717].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Wyndham, WA.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Carnarvon Range and Wyndham.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest of resin in abandoned mud-wasp nest (probably built by Sceliphron laetum (Smith) (Sphecidae), modified by an eumenine); flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosoideae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Indigophora L. [Fabaceae], Tristania R. Brown [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 [1383] (morphology, as Chalicodoma paracallida)
Wylie, F.R., Walsh, G.L. & Yule, R.A. 1987. Insect damage to aboriginal relics at burial and rock-art sites near Carnarvon in central Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26: 335-345 [Date published 31/12/1987] (biology)
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