Species Braunsapis associata (Michener, 1961)

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• Allodapula associata Michener, C.D. 1961. Probable parasitism among Australian bees of the genus Allodapula (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Ceratinini). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54: 532-534 [Date published 31/12/1961] [533].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T6223 ♀, Mt Edwards, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Possibly cleptoparasitic but females with pollen on scopa, found in nests of Braunsapis unicolor (Smith, 1854), nest in dead twigs, flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].

General References

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] (generic placement)

Michener, C.D. & Syed, I.H. 1962. Specific characters of the larvae and adults of Allodapula in the Australian region (Hymenoptera: Ceratinini). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 1: 30-41 [Date published 31/12/1962] (taxonomy)

Reyes, S.G. 1993. Revision of the bee genus Braunsapis in the Australian region (Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae: Allodapini). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 55(3): 97-121 [Date published August] [112] (redescription, distribution, biology; paratype transferred to B. platyura)

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