Species Megachile paratasmanica Rayment, 1955
- Megachile paratasmanica Rayment, T. 1955. New species of bees and wasps—Part XXIV. Victorian Naturalist 71: 145-147 [Date published 31/12/1955] [145].
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.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest of 'vegetable putty' (masticated leaves) in gallery (probably of longicorn beetle) in dead Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], flower visiting record: 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] (illustration)
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