Species Megachile turneri (Meade-Waldo, 1913)
- Thaumatosoma turneri Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. Four new species of Apidae (Hymenoptera) with notes on other species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 12: 491-497 [Date published 31/12/1913] [491].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2583 ♂, Kuranda, QLD.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Kuranda, Mackay, Darwin and Baudin Is.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Parinari nonda Benth. [Chrysobalanaceae].
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] (taxonomy)
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 [1379] (morphology, as Chalicodoma turneri)
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