Species Braunsapis plebeia (Cockerell, 1929)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Allodape plebeia Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929] [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, Thursday Is., QLD.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, 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), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), 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), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), 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, flower visiting record: Plectronia L. [Rubiaceae].

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] (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)

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, as Allodapula plebeia (Cockerell, 1929))

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] [103] (redescription, distribution; one female paratype is B. simillima)

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