Species Ceratina (Neoceratina) australensis (Perkins, 1912)

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• Neoceratina australensis Perkins, R.C.L. 1912. Notes, with descriptions of new species, on aculeate Hymenoptera of the Australian Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 96-121 [Date published 31/12/1912] [117].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2831 ♀, Bundaberg, QLD.
• Allodape bribiensis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. New Australian bees. The Entomologist 47: 197-201 [Date published 31/12/1914] [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T4109 ♀, Bribie Is., QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [30]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead dry pithy stems (weed, Lantana L. [Verbenaceae], Rubus L. [Rosaceae], Verbena L. [Verbenaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae]), no evidence of castes or social behaviour, each larva reared in individual, mass-provisioned cell, but several adults may be found in one nest, overwintering, or soon after emergence.

General References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. London : CAB International 832 pp. [252] (as host to Eupelmophotismus pulcher (Girault))

Hirashima, Y. 1971. Subgeneric classification of the genus Ceratina Latreille of Asia and West Pacific, with comments on the remaining subgenera of the world (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 16: 349-375 [Date published 31/12/1971] (generic placement, distribution)

Michener, C.D. 1962. The genus Ceratina in Australia, with notes on its nests (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 35: 414-421 [Date published 31/12/1962] (biology, as Ceratina australensis (Perkins, 1912))

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] [222] (illustration, as Ceratina (Ceratina) australensis)

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. (description of male, nest described is not of this species)

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