Species Megachile tasmanica Cockerell, 1916
- Megachile tasmanica Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Descriptions and records of bees. LXXI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 17: 277-287 [Date published 31/12/1916] [277].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2347 ♂, George Town, TAS.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Brisbane and George Town.
IBRA
Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] (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)
Rayment, T. 1955. New species of bees and wasps—Part XXIV. Victorian Naturalist 71: 145-147 [Date published 31/12/1955] (taxonomy)
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