Species Exoneura (Exoneura) angophorae Cockerell, 1912

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• Exoneura angophorae Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 220-229 [Date published 31/12/1912] [224].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry stems (Erythrina L. [Fabaceae], Lantana L. [Verbenaceae]), flowering stalks (Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae]), two or more adult females may be present in one nest, not all females lay eggs, all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cane, J.H. & Michener, C.D. 1983. Chemistry and function of mandibular gland products of bees of the genus Exoneura (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 9: 1525-1531 [Date published 31/12/1983] (taxonomy)

Michener, C.D. 1965. The life cycle and social organization of bees of the genus Exoneura and their parasite, Inquilina (Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 46: 317-358 [Date published 31/12/1965] (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)

Rayment, T. 1947. Bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 64: 103-107 [Date published 31/12/1947] (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1948. New bees and wasps—Part VII. Two undescribed species of Exoneura, with notes on recent collectings of several other Exoneurae and the extraordinary appendages of their larvae. Victorian Naturalist 65: 85-91 [Date published 31/12/1948] (biology)

Rayment, T. 1949. New bees and wasps—Part VIII. A new species of Exoneura, with notes on other reed-bees from the Grampians. Victorian Naturalist 65: 208-212 [Date published 31/12/1949] (taxonomy)

Rayment, T. 1951. Biology of the reed-bees. With descriptions of three new species and two allotypes of Exoneura. The Australian Zoologist 11: 285-313 [Date published 31/12/1951] (biology)

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

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 [351] (biology; misidentification of species involved in social and biological studies; richardsoni of authors = angophorae)

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