Species Exoneura (Exoneura) baculifera Cockerell, 1922
- Exoneura baculifera Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [276].
Type data:
Syntype(s) QM 5♀ (a female is labelled 'type' and has registration number T2520), [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Lamington National Park, Woy Woy, Gladesville, Lindfield and Gorae West.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in dead, dry stems (on edge of rainforest, of Erythrina), in galleries in dry timber, two or more adult females may be present in one nest, not all females lay eggs, all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: Claoxylon A. Juss. [Euphorbiaceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Lomatia R.Br. [Proteaceae].
General References
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] [243] (flower record)
Michener, C.D. 1965. The life cycle and social organization of bees of the genus Exoneura and their parasite, Inquilina (Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 46: 317-358 [Date published 31/12/1965] (biology)
Michener, C.D. 1977. Discordant evolution and the classification of allodapine bees. Systematic Zoology 26: 32-56 [Date published 31/12/1977] (taxonomy)
Rayment, T. 1939. Bees from the high lands of New South Wales and Victoria. The Australian Zoologist 9: 263-294 [Date published 31/12/1939] (distribution)
Rayment, T. 1948. New bees and wasps—Part VII. Two undescribed species of Exoneura, with notes on recent collectings of several other Exoneurae and the extraordinary appendages of their larvae. Victorian Naturalist 65: 85-91 [Date published 31/12/1948] (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. New bees and wasps—Part XXII. The altruistic reed-bees, Exoneura. Victorian Naturalist 71: 13-16 [Date published 31/12/1954] (illustration)
History of changes
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