Species Megachile callura (Cockerell, 1914)

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• Thaumatosoma callurum Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LXIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 464-472 [Date published 31/12/1914] [467].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2579 ♂, Yarrawin, NSW.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Anthocercis Labill. [Solanaceae], Crotalaria dissitiflora Benth. [Fabaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Eriostemon linearis A. Cunn. ex Lindl. [Rutaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Heterodendrum oleifolium Desf. [Sapindaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Psoralea patens (Lindl.) J.W. Grimes [Fabaceae], Tristania R. Brown ,[Myrtaceae].

General References

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 [1390] (morphology, as Chalicodoma callura)

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