Species Exoneura (Exoneura) robusta Cockerell, 1922
- Exoneura robusta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [275].
Type data:
Holotype QM T2516 ♀, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Lamington National Park, Mt Glorious, Lindfield and Mt Buffalo.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in dead, dry stems (Spartium L. [Fabaceae]), 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: Lomatia R.Br. [Proteaceae], Oxylobium Andrews [Fabaceae], Rubus L. [Rosaceae], Stylidium Willd. [Stylidiaceae].
General References
Bull, N.J., Mibus, A.C., Norimatsu, Y., Jarmyn, B.L. & Schwarz, M.P. 1998. Giving your daughters the edge: bequeathing reproductive dominance in a primitively social bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265: 1411-1415 [1411] (biology)
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)
Neville, T., Schwarz, M.P. & Tierney, S.M. 1998. Biology of a weakly social bee, Exoneura (Exoneurella) setosa (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and implications for social evolution in Australian allodapine bees. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 221-234 [230] (biology compared)
Rayment, T. 1947. Bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 64: 103-107 [Date published 31/12/1947] (flower record)
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)
Reyes, S.G. 1998. A cladistic analysis of the bee tribe Allodapini (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Philippine Entomologist 12(1): 55-84 [73]
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] (biology; misidentification of species involved in social and biological studies; bicolor of authors = robusta or nigrescens)
History of changes
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