Species Austroplebeia australis (Friese, 1898)
- Trigona australis Mocsáry, S. 1898. in Friese, H. Die Trigona-Arten Australiens. Természetrajzi Füzetek 21: 427-431 [Date published 31/12/1898] [430].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMHB workers (number of specimens unknown), Central Australia.
Paralectotype(s) ZMHB worker, Burnett River, QLD. - Trigona cincta percincta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] [242].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMHB worker, Finke River, Hermannsburg, NT.
Paralectotype(s) ZMHB 3 workers, Finke River, Hermannsburg, NT. - Trigona cockerelli Rayment, T. 1930. New and remarkable bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 43: 42-61 [Date published 31/12/1930] [57].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC worker, Borroloola, NT.
Paratype(s) ANIC worker, Borroloola, NT. - Trigona cockerelli ornata Rayment, T. 1932. The stingless bees of Australia. 6. The finding of a new species. Victorian Naturalist 49: 104-107 [Date published 31/12/1932] [107].
Type data:
Lectotype NMV worker, ♂, Cape York, QLD.
Paralectotype(s) NMV several specimens (worker), Cape York, QLD. - Trigona websteri Rayment, T. 1932. The stingless bees of Australia. 6. The finding of a new species. Victorian Naturalist 49: 104-107 [Date published 31/12/1932] [105].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC worker, Wyndham, WA.
Paratype(s) ANIC worker, Wyndham, WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Dollin, A.E., Dollin, L.J. & Rasmussen, C. 2015. Australian and New Guinean Stingless Bees of the Genus Austroplebeia Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae)—a revision. Zootaxa 4047(1): 1-73 [43]
Generic Combinations
- Austroplebeia australis (Friese, 1898).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Social insects, living in large colonies, with female reproductive and worker castes, nests of wax and resin (and pollen), in trunks of small (average diameter 18 cm) living trees, flower visiting record: Alphitonia Reisseck ex Endl. [Rhamnaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Rapistrum Crantz [Brassicaceae], Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].
General References
Dollin, A.E., Dollin, L.J. & Rasmussen, C. 2015. Australian and New Guinean Stingless Bees of the Genus Austroplebeia Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae)—a revision. Zootaxa 4047(1): 1-73 [43, figs 1–20, 22–26, 28–29, 32–33] (redescribed, illustrated, new records)
Drumond, P.M, Oldroyd, B.P., Dollin, A.E. & L.J. Dollin 1999. Oviposition behaviour of two Australian stingless bees, Austroplebeia symei Rayment and Austroplebeia australis Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Australian Journal of Entomology 38(3): 234-241 [234-241]
Drumond, P.M., Oldroyd, B.P. & Osborne, K. 2000. Worker reproduction in Austroplebeia australis Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini). Insectes Sociaux 47: 333-336 [333] (biology)
Goebel, R.L. 1986. Australian native bees. Queensland Agricultural Journal 112: 285-286 [Date published 31/12/1986] (biology)
Hockings, H.J. 1884. Notes on two Australian species of Trigona. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884: 149-157 [Date published 31/12/1884] (biology, under aboriginal name 'kootchar')
McKenzie, E. 1975. Growing up with aborigines. Queensland Naturalist 21: 46-51 [Date published 31/12/1975] (honey)
Michener, C.D. 1961. Observations on the nests and behavior of Trigona in Australia and New Guinea (Hymenoptera, Apidae). American Museum Novitates 2026: 1-46 [Date published 31/12/1961] (biology, as Trigona (Plebeia) australis Friese, 1898)
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] (illustration, flower record, as Trigona (Plebeia) australis Friese, 1898)
Michener, C.D. 1974. The Social Behaviour of the Bees. A comparative study. Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 404 pp. [Date published 31/12/1974] (biology)
Michener, C.D. 1990. Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 54: 75-164 [Date published 31/12/1990] (illustration)
Milborrow, B.V., Kennedy, J.M. & Dollin A. 1987. Composition of wax made by the Australian stingless bee Trigona australis. Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 15-25 [Date published 31/12/1987] (biochemistry)
Moure, J.S. 1961. A preliminary supra-specific classification of the Old World meliponine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Studia Entomologica ns 4: 181-242 [Date published 31/12/1961] (generic placement)
Rayment, T. 1932. The stingless bees of Australia. 6. The finding of a new species. Victorian Naturalist 49: 104-107 [Date published 31/12/1932] (taxonomy)
Wagner, A. & Dollin, L. 1982. Probing the mysteries of the N.S.W. native bees. Australasian Beekeeper 83: 157-161 [Date published 31/12/1982] (biology, distribution)
Wagner, A.E. & Briscoe, D.A. 1983. An absence of enzyme variability within two species of Trigona (Hymenoptera). Heredity 50: 97-103 [Date published 31/12/1983] (genetic variability)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 26-Jun-2023 | Meliponini | 02-Dec-2015 | MODIFIED | Lyn Randall |
| 22-Oct-2015 | 20-Sep-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Aug-2012 | 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |