Species Megachile (Austrochile) remotula Cockerell, 1910

Museums

Regional Maps

• Megachile remotula Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Some Australian bees in the Berlin Museum. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 18: 98-114 [Date published 31/12/1910] [111].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 1003 2♀, as Eastern Australia (this label may be an error for Western Australia).

  Type locality references:

  Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] [229] (note under Megachile preissi Cockerell, 1910).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Unconfirmed E Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

 

General References

King, J. 1991. Studies on the genus Austrochile Michener N. Stat. in Australia (Megachilidae: Hymenoptera). Unpubl. MSc Thesis. Brisbane : Univ. of Queensland. 135 pp. (distribution)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1915. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. VI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 325-335 [Date published 31/12/1915] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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