Species Exoneurella eremophila (Houston, 1976)

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• Exoneura (Exoneurella) eremophila Houston, T.F. 1976. New Australian allodapine bees (subgenus Exoneurella Michener) and their immatures (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 100: 15-28 [Date published 31/12/1976] [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I20961 ♂, New Kalamurina Homestead, SA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead, dry pithy stems (Crotalaria L. [Fabaceae], Myriocephalus Benth. [Asteraceae]), basically subsocial, each female founding and maintaining her own nest, occasionally two or more females may oviposit and rear brood together in one nest, all immature stages found in the communal chamber, larvae fed progressively, flower visiting record: Calandrinia Kunth [Portulacaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Hakea Schrader [Proteaceae], Helichrysum Miller s.lat. [Asteraceae], Hibiscus L. [Malvaceae], Myriocephalus Benth. [Asteraceae], Ptilotus R.Br. [Amaranthaceae], Scaevola L. [Goodeniaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].

General References

Houston, T.F. 1977. Nesting biology of three allodapine bees in the subgenus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 101: 99-113 [Date published 31/12/1977] (biology)

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)

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

Reyes, S.G., Cooper, S.J.B. & Schwarz, M.P. 1999. Species phylogeny of the bee genus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Allodapini): evidence from molecular and morphological data sets. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92(1): 20-29 [20]

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 [353] (biology)

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