Species Exoneura (Exoneura) bicincta Rayment, 1935

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• Exoneura bicincta 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. [731].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂, Mt William, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mt William, near Belgrave, Dandenong Ranges, Cobboboonee State Forest and Gorae West.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry stems (Rubus L. [Rosaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae]), in deserted beetle galleries in a beam of dry timber (Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae]), in dead fronds (Dicksonia L'Hérit. [Dicksoniaceae]), 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.

 

Misidentification

Note frequent misidentification of species involved in social and biological studies.

 

General References

Cane, J.H. & Michener, C.D. 1983. Chemistry and function of mandibular gland products of bees of the genus Exoneura (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 9: 1525-1531 [Date published 31/12/1983] (taxonomy, mandibular gland products)

Michener, C.D. 1983. The parasitic Australian allodapine genus Inquilina (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 56: 555-559 [Date published 31/12/1983] (as possible host of Inquilina schwarzi Michener, 1983)

Rayment, T. 1951. Biology of the reed-bees. With descriptions of three new species and two allotypes of Exoneura. The Australian Zoologist 11: 285-313 [Date published 31/12/1951] (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1954. New bees and wasps—Part XXII. The altruistic reed-bees, Exoneura. Victorian Naturalist 71: 13-16 [Date published 31/12/1954] (description of female, biology)

Schwarz, M.P. 1986. Persistent multi-female nests in an Australian allodapine bee, Exoneura bicolor (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Insectes Sociaux 33: 258-277 [Date published 31/12/1986] (biology)

Schwarz, M.P. 1988. Notes on cofounded nests in three species of social bees in the genus Exoneura (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). Victorian Naturalist 105: 212-215 [Date published 31/12/1988] (biology)

Schwarz, M.P., Bull, N.J. & Hogendoorn, K. 1998. Evolution of sociality in the allodapine bees: a review of sex allocation, ecology and evolution. Insectes Sociaux 45: 349-368 [351] (bicincta of authors = bicolor)

Silberbauer, L.X. 1992. Founding patterns of Exoneura bicolor Smith in Cobboboonee State Forest, southwestern Victoria. The Australian Zoologist 28(1-4): 67-73 [Date published December] [70] (biology)

 

History of changes

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