Species Megachile micrerythrura Cockerell, 1910

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• Megachile micrerythrura Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 272-284 [Date published 31/12/1910] [281].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂ ♀ (female specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.2309), Darwin, NT.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Atalaya hemiglauca F. Muell. ex Benth. [Sapindaceae], Calytrix Labill. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Jacksonia R. Brown [Fabaceae], Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre [Fabaceae], Randia L.[Rubiaceae], Tristania R. Brown [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

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 (Rhodomegachile) Michener (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 24: 199-204 [Date published 31/12/1985] (male designated 'allotype' of Megachile deanii Rayment, 1935 is this species)

 

History of changes

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