Species Megachile (Rhodomegachile) abdominale Smith, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Megachile abdominalis 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] [169].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2295 ♂, Macintyre River, NSW [on label, as New Holland in description].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest of wax cells in any suitable cavity, generally wood, or nest of mud and resin in abandoned mud-wasp nest, flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], (Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae]), Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Hacker, H. 1915. Notes on the genus Megachile and some rare insects collected during 1913–14. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 137-141 [Date published 31/12/1915] (flower record doubtful record)

King, J. & Exley, E.M. 1985. A revision of Chalicodoma (Rhodomegachile) Michener (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 24: 199-204 [Date published 31/12/1985] (redescription)

Radoschkowsky, O. de B. 1874. Supplément indispensable à l'article publié par M. Gerstaecker, en 1869, sur quelques genres d'hyménoptères. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 48: 132-164 [=Radoszkowski, O.I.] [Date published 31/12/1874] (illustration)

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. (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38 (nest)

Wylie, F.R., Walsh, G.L. & Yule, R.A. 1987. Insect damage to aboriginal relics at burial and rock-art sites near Carnarvon in central Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26: 335-345 [Date published 31/12/1987] (biology)

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