Species Euhesma (Euhesma) maculifera (Michener, 1965)

Museums

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• Euryglossa (Euhesma) maculifera 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] [91] [nom. nov. for Melittosmithia maculata Rayment, 1935].
• Melittosmithia maculata 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. [653] [junior secondary homonym of Euryglossa maculata Smith, 1879].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Beaumaris, VIC.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [499] (distribution)

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [367]

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