Species Braunsapis diminuta (Cockerell, 1915)

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• Allodape diminuta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. LXV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 261-269 [Date published 31/12/1915] [266].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM ♂, Yarrawin, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [40]; 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] [102] (states lectotype is ).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry twigs (Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae]), several females in one nest and larvae of various ages are found together, not in separate cells, flower visiting record: Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Loranthus Jacq. [Loranthaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929] (taxonomy)

Michener, C.D. 1962. Biological observations on the primitively social bees of the genus Allodapula in the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Xylocopinae). Insectes Sociaux 9: 355-373 [Date published 31/12/1962] (biology)

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] (redescription, biology, as Allodapula diminuta Cockerell, 1915)

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, flower record)

Rayment, T. 1946. New bees and wasps—Part II. Describing two black species of Exoneura. Victorian Naturalist 62: 230-236 [Date published 31/12/1946] (flower record)

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] [102] (redescription, distribution)

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