Species Megachile alleynae Rayment, 1935

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• Megachile alleynae 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. [722].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae].

 

General References

King, J. 1994. The bee family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Australia. I. Morphology of the genus Chalicodoma Lepeletier, and a revision of the subgenus Hackeriapis Cockerell. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8(6): 1373-1419 [1373] (not included in Hackeriapis)

 

History of changes

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07-Aug-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
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