Species Amegilla (Asaropoda) calva (Rayment, 1935)

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• Anthophora calva 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. [712].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC 2♀, Davis Creek, NSW.
• Amegilla (Asarapoda) paracalva Brooks, R.W. 1993. A new Amegilla (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(2): 279-282 [Date published June] [279].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂, 16 km WSW Lyons River Homestead, WA [24°38'S 115°20'E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Wide distribution across central Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

 

General References

Brooks, R.W. 1993. A new Amegilla (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(2): 279-282 [Date published June] [279] (taxonomy)

Leijs, R., Dorey, J. & Hogendoorn, K. 2020. The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: a revision of the subgenus Asaropoda. ZooKeys 908: 45-122 [77]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	Amegilla Friese, 1897	29-Apr-2020	MODIFIED
22-Oct-2015		20-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED