Genus Megachile Latreille, 1802
Compiler and date details
6 July 2012 - Danielle N. Stringer, John T. Jennings & Andrew D. Austin, Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide SA 5005
2012 - Entries updated by Ken Walker, Museum Victoria
30 March 2006 - Updated and revised by Ken L. Walker, Museum Victoria, 11 Nicholson St, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
1993 - J.C. Cardale, CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra, Australia
- Megachile Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle des Fourmis, et Recueil de Mémoires et d'Observations sur les Abeilles, les Araignées, les Faucheurs, et Autres Insectes. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 8 445 pp. [434] [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (Name No. 651), Opinion 219].
Type species:
Apis centuncularis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Curtis, J. 1828. British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. London : John Curtis Vol. 5 pls 195-241. [Date published 31/12/1828] [pl. 218].Secondary source:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1954. Opinion 219. Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of Megachile Latreille, 1802, with Apis centuncularis Linnaeus, 1758, as type species (Class Insecta, Order Hymenoptera). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 4: 93-102 [Date published 31/12/1954]. - Chalicodoma Lepeletier, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris : Roret Vol. ii (1841) 680 pp. [Date published 31/12/1841] [309].
Type species:
Apis muraria Fabricius, 1798 by subsequent designation, see Girard, M. 1879. Traité élémentaire d'Entomologie. Hymenoptères porte-aiguillon. Paris : Baillière Vol. 2 577-1028 pp., 7 pls. [778].Secondary source:
Michener, C.D. 1962. Observations on the classification of the bees commonly placed in the genus Megachile (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 70: 17-29 [Date published 31/12/1962] [20].
Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement
- 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] [206]
- Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [533]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
General References
Houston, T.F. & Pike, D.T. 2013. Aerial brood cells constructed by some Australian resin bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) and a case of gregarious nesting. Australian Entomologist 40(2): 67-78
History of changes
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