Species Ctenocolletes centralis Houston, 1983

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• Ctenocolletes centralis Houston, T.F. 1983. A revision of the bee genus Ctenocolletes (Hymenoptera: Stenotritidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 10: 269-306 [Date published 31/12/1983] [283].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 7577 ♂, 3 miles S Neale Junction, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Baeckea L. [Myrtaceae], Dicrastylis J.L. Drumm. ex Harvey [Verbenaceae], Thryptomene Endl. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Fain, A. 1984. A new genus of mite (Acari: Acaridae) phoretic on bees (Ctenocolletes) in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 77-86 [Date published 31/12/1984] (as host)

Fain, A. & Houston, T.F. 1986. Life cycle stages of mites of the genus Ctenocolletacarus Fain (Acari: Acaridae) associated with Ctenocolletes bees in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 67-77 [Date published 31/12/1986] (as host)

Houston, T.F. 1984. Biological observations in the genus Ctenocolletes (Hymenoptera: Stenotritidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 153-172 [Date published 31/12/1984] (biology)

Houston, T.F. 1985. Supplement to a revision of the bee genus Ctenocolletes (Hymenoptera: Stenotritidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 293-305 [Date published 31/12/1985] (distribution)

Houston, T.F. 1987. A second contribution to the biology of Ctenocolletes bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Stenotritidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 189-201 [Date published 31/12/1987] (biology)

Houston, T.F. 1988. The symbiosis of acarid mites, genus Ctenocolletacarus (Acarina: Acariformes), and stenotritid bees, genus Ctenocolletes (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 35(1987): 459-468 [Date published 31/12/1988] (biology)

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