Species Exoneura (Exoneura) obliterata Cockerell, 1913

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• Exoneura angophorae obliterata 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) USNM ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Sunnybank, Brisbane, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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 reeds, 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: Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Helichrysum Miller s.lat. [Asteraceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Rapistrum Crantz [Brassicaceae], Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].

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)

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] (biology, subspecies to species)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (flower record)

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