Species Braunsapis nitida (Smith, 1859)

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• Allodape nitida Smith, F. 1859. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 3: 132-178 [Date published 1 Feb. 1859] [134].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀, Aru Is.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), 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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry twigs (Stachys L. [Lamiaceae]), several females in one nest and larvae of various ages are found together, not in separate cells.

General References

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. 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] [223] (generic placement; information on biology, as Allodapula nitida (Smith, 1859), is for B. biroi, see Reyes (1993: 111))

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 nitida (Smith, 1859))

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] [111] (redescription, distribution)

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