Species Amegilla (Asaropoda) albigenella Michener, 1965

Museums

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• Amegilla (Asaropoda) albigenella Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] [217] [nom. nov. for Asaropoda albigena Rayment, 1931].
• Asaropoda albigena Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] [182] [junior secondary homonym of Anthophora albigena Lepeletier, 1841].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂, Landor Station, WA.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

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 [65]

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. (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1951. A critical revision of species in the genus Asaropoda by new characters. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 17: 65-80 [Date published 31/12/1951] (taxonomy)

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