Species Exoneurella tridentata (Houston, 1976)

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• Exoneura (Exoneurella) tridentata Houston, T.F. 1976. New Australian allodapine bees (subgenus Exoneurella Michener) and their immatures (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 100: 15-28 [Date published 31/12/1976] [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I20963 ♂, Lake Gilles National Park, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in disused beetle burrows, in dead, dry, hollowed-out woody twigs (Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Alectryon Gaertner (as Halyctryon) [Sapindaceae], Heterodendrum Desf. [Sapindaceae]), eusocial, small colonies with queen and worker castes, all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: Amyema Tieghem [Loranthaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Loranthus Jacq. [Loranthaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Myoporum G.Forster [Myoporaceae].

General References

Dew, R.M. & Schwarz, M.P. 2013. Distribution of the native South Australian bee Exoneurella tridentata in Western Myall (Acacia papyrocarpa) woodlands. South Australian Naturalist 87(2): 70-74

Houston, T.F. 1977. Nesting biology of three allodapine bees in the subgenus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 101: 99-113 [Date published 31/12/1977] (biology)

Neville, T., Schwarz, M.P. & Tierney, S.M. 1998. Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 221-234 [230] (biology compared)

Reyes, S.G. 1998. A cladistic analysis of the bee tribe Allodapini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Philippine Entomologist 12(1): 55-84 [73]

Reyes, S.G., Cooper, S.J.B. & Schwarz, M.P. 1999. Species phylogeny of the bee genus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Allodapini): evidence from molecular and morphological data sets. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92(1): 20-29 [20]

Schwarz, M.P., Bull, N.J. & Hogendoorn, K. 1998. Evolution of sociality in the allodapine bees: a review of sex allocation, ecology and evolution. Insectes Sociaux 45: 349-368 [353] (biology)

Steen, Z. & Schwarz, M.P. 1998. Within-nest behaviour in a eusocial Australian allodapine bee Exoneura (Exoneurella) tridentata Houston (Apidae: Xylocopinae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 122(2): 55-63 [55] (biology)

Sugden, E. 1988. Inside the (secret) societies of native bees. Australian Natural History 22: 381-384 [Date published 31/12/1988] (biology)

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