Species Megachile cliffordi Rayment, 1953
- Megachile cliffordi Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] [33].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Gorae West, VIC.
Distribution
States
Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
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, solitary, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest of resin, in beetle tunnel in dry wood (Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae]), flower visiting record: Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Lotus L. [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)
Rayment, T. 1954. New bees and wasps—Part XXIII. Victorian Naturalist 71: 59-61 [Date published 31/12/1954] (description of female, biology)
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