Species Exoneurella setosa (Houston, 1976)

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• Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa 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] [18].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I20962 ♂, West Beach, Adelaide, SA.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry pithy stems (Cakile Miller [Brassicaceae], Euphorbia L. [Euphorbiaceae], Foeniculum Miller [Apiaceae], Geranium L. [Geraniaceae]), weakly social, each female founding and maintaining her own nest, all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: pigface, Cakile Miller [Brassicaceae], Geranium L. [Geraniaceae], Reichardia Roth [Asteraceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].

General References

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 [221] (biology)

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)

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