Species Megachile (Callomegachile) pretiosa Friese, 1909
- Megachile (Eumegachile) pretiosa Friese, H. 1909. Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 7: 179-288 [Date published 31/12/1909] [251].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Cairns, QLD.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known in Australia only from type locality.
IBRA
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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
General References
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)
Friese, H. 1908. Hymenoptera. II. Apidae. Nova Guinea. pp. 353-359 pl. XV in Wichmann, A. (ed.). Résultats de L'Expedition Scientifique Néerlandaise á la Nouvelle Guinée en 1903. Leiden : E.J. Brill. [Date published 31/12/1908] (illustration, as Megachile albobasalis Smith, 1879)
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] (generic placement)
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