Species Lithurgus atratiformis Cockerell, 1905

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• Lithurgus atratiformis Cockerell, 1905.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2098 ♀, NW coast of Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fiji (probably introduced); "north coast of Australia" (Jennings & Austin 2015)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nests in unlined tunnels in rotten branches and stumps of Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae] and in dead sticks (doubtful record of mud nests in longicorn burrows), flower visiting record: Hibiscus L. [Malvaceae], Ipomoea L. [Convolvulaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 301-308 [Date published 31/12/1905] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Descriptions and records of bees. XI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 527-539 [Date published 31/12/1906] (description of male)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] (taxonomy)

Eardley, C.D. 1988. A revision of the genus Lithurge Latreille (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) of sub-saharan Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 51: 251-263 [Date published 31/12/1988] (wrongly recorded from S Africa)

Houston, T.F. 1971. Notes on the biology of a lithurgine bee (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 31-36 [Date published 31/12/1971] (biology)

McGinley, R.J. 1981. Systematics of the Colletidae based on mature larvae with phenetic analysis of apoid larvae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 91: 1-309 [Date published 31/12/1981] (larva)

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] (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1928. Studies of Australian bees. I. The leaf-cutting bees (Megachile macularis, Dalla Torre, and other species). II. The clay-bees. (Lithurgus atratiformis, Cockerell). Victorian Naturalist 45: 79-86 [Date published 31/12/1928] (doubtful record of nest, Vic)

Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. (doubtful record)

Rozen, J.G. 1973. Immature stages of lithurgine bees with descriptions of the Megachilidae and Fideliidae based on mature larvae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum Novitates 2527: 1-14 [Date published 31/12/1973] (larva)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	MEGACHILIDAE	24-Mar-2015	ADDED	Michael Batley