Species Megachile apicata Smith, 1853

Museums

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• Megachile apicata 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] [172].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2298 ♀, Adelaide, SA.

Introduction

Host of Anthrax incomptus Walker (Prendergast & Yeates 2018)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), 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), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Lotus australia Andrews [Fabaceae], Medicago sativa L. [Fabaceae], Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre [Fabaceae], Psoralea patens (Lindl.) J.W. Grimes [Fabaceae], Tristania R. Brown [Myrtaceae], Wahlenbergia Schrader [Campanulaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Descriptions and records of bees. XI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 527-539 [Date published 31/12/1906] (taxonomy, as Megachile modesta Smith, 1862)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. On a collection of Australian and Asiatic bees. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 221-236 [Date published 31/12/1907] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Bees of the genus Megachile from Australia. The Entomologist 46: 164-168 [Date published 31/12/1913] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929] (taxonomy)

King, J. 1986. The systematics of some Australian Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Unpubl. PhD Thesis. Brisbane : Univ. of Queensland. 439 pp. (distribution)

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)

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] (distribution)

Prendergast, K.S. & Yeates, D.K. 2018. New records of bee fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae) and mite (Acari: Pyemotidae) parasites of Australian Megachile bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 45(1859): 51–56

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