Species Exoneura (Inquilina) excavata Cockerell, 1922

Museums

Regional Maps

• Exoneura excavata Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [276].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2521 ♀, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
• Exoneura dawsoni Rayment, T. 1946. New bees and wasps—Part III. Another new Exoneura; also notes on the biology of E. hamulata. Victorian Naturalist 63: 63-68 [Date published 31/12/1946] [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Neerim South, VIC.
• Exoneura concava 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] [249].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (described as ♂), Brooklyn, NSW.
• Exoneura angulata 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] [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Dandenong, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [556]

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.

Extra Ecological Information

Cleptoparasitic in nests of Exoneura variabilis Rayment, 1949, in stems (Lantana L. [Verbenaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae]), all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

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] (redescription, generic placement)

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] (biology)

Michener, C.D. & Brooks, R.W. 1984. A comparative study of the glossae of bees (Apoidea). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 22: 1-73 [Date published 31/12/1984] (glossa)

Michener, C.D. & Scheiring, J.F. 1976. Pupae of allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 63-70 [Date published 31/12/1976] (pupa)

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)

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

Syed, I.H. 1963. Comparative studies of larvae of Australian ceratinine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 64: 263-280 [Date published 31/12/1963] (larva)

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