Species Exoneura (Exoneura) montana Rayment, 1939
- Exoneura montana 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] [290].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ (number of specimens unknown, female specimen labelled 'type'), White Swamp, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities White Swamp, Patonga Beach, Brooklyn and Mt Buffalo.
IBRA
NSW, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in dead, dry stems (Lantana L. [Verbenaceae]), (punky cherry wood), 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: Kunzea Reichb. [Myrtaceae], Stylidium Willd. [Stylidiaceae].
General References
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] (taxonomy)
Rayment, T. 1947. Bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 64: 103-107 [Date published 31/12/1947] (flower record)
Rayment, T. 1948. Some bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 65: 201-202 [Date published 31/12/1948] (flower record)
Rayment, T. 1949. New bees and wasps—Part IX. Four undescribed species of Exoneura, with notes on their collection, and description of new parasites discovered on the genus. Victorian Naturalist 65: 247-254 [Date published 31/12/1949] (biology)
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] (distribution)
Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38 (as host)
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