Species Lithurgus atratus Smith, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lithurgus atratus Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [145].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4♀ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.2094), India.
• Lithurgus dentipes Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [146].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH ♂, Australia?.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gonzalez, V.H., Engel, M.S. & Griswold, T.L. 2013. The lithurgine bees of Australia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with a note on Megachile rotundipennis. Journal of Melittology 11: 1–19 [Date published 18/5/2013] [12].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lieftinck, M.A. 1939. Uit het leven van Lithurgus atratus, een indisch houtbijtje. Tropische Natuur. Nederlandisch-Indische Natuurhistorische Vereeniging 28: 193-201 [Date published 31/12/1939] [193] (by inference)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in dead wood (doubtful record of mud nest in beetle burrow in wood)

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31: 309-364 [Date published 31/12/1905] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] (taxonomy, as Lithurgus dentipes Smith, 1853)

Friese, H. 1909. Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 7: 179-288 [Date published 31/12/1909] (distribution)

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] (nest, as Lithurge dentipes Smith, 1853)

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)

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