Species Exoneura (Exoneura) hackeri Cockerell, 1913

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• Exoneura angophorae hackeri Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] [29].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QM ♀ (number of specimens unknown, a female is labelled 'type' and has registration number T4114), Sunnybank, Brisbane, QLD.
• Exoneura insularis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. New Australian bees. The Entomologist 47: 197-201 [Date published 31/12/1914] [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Stradbroke Is., QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [352]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry stems (on rainforest margin), 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: Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1918. Some bees collected in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 112-120 [Date published 31/12/1918] (description of male, subspecies to species)

Michener, C.D. 1961. A new parasitic genus of Ceratinini from Australia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 34: 178-180 [Date published 31/12/1961] (illustration)

Michener, C.D. 1963. Division of labour among primitively social bees. Science (Washington, D.C.) 141: 434-435 [Date published 31/12/1963] (biology)

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)

Rayment, T. 1949. New bees and wasps—Part VIII. A new species of Exoneura, with notes on other reed-bees from the Grampians. Victorian Naturalist 65: 208-212 [Date published 31/12/1949] (taxonomy)

Reyes, S.G. 1998. A cladistic analysis of the bee tribe Allodapini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Philippine Entomologist 12(1): 55-84 [73]

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