Species Callomelitta antipodes (Smith, 1853)

Museums

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• Sphecodes antipodes Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.558 ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Sphecodes antipus Sichel, J. 1865. Révision monographique, critique et synonymique du genre mellifère Sphecodes Latr., basé sur la méthode numérique; avec des remarques sur les moeurs des Sphécodes comme insectes nidifiants et non parasites. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 5: 397-466 [Date published 31/12/1865] [451] [unjustified emendation and junior objective synonym of Sphecodes antipodes Smith, 1853].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in rotting wood, flower visiting record: aster, Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. On a collection of Australian and Asiatic bees. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 221-236 [Date published 31/12/1907] (taxonomy, as Binghamiella antipodes (Smith, 1853))

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] (distribution)

Michener, C.D. 1992. Sexual dimorphism in the glossa of Colletidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 65: 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1992] (glossa)

Michener, C.D. & Fraser, A. 1978. A comparative anatomical study of mandibular structure in bees. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 51: 463-482 [Date published 31/12/1978] (mandible)

Rayment, T. 1929. Studies of Australian bees. The red bees. Victorian Naturalist 45: 240-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (biology)

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. (biology)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1954. Remarkable bees from a rain forest. The Australian Zoologist 12: 46-56 [Date published 31/12/1954] (illustration)

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