Species Meroglossa canaliculata Smith, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meroglossa canaliculata Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.214 ♂, Port Essington, NT.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Port Essington, Darwin, East Alligator River and Cairns district.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), 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.

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31: 309-364 [Date published 31/12/1905] (redescription)

Houston, T.F. 1975. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). I. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 36: 1-135 [Date published 31/12/1975] (redescription)

McGinley, R.J. 1980. Glossal morphology of the Colletidae and recognition of the Stenotritidae at the family level (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 53: 539-552 [Date published 31/12/1980] (glossa)

Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] (illustration)

Michener, C.D. 1992. Sexual dimorphism in the glossa of Colletidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 65: 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1992] (glossa)

Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. (illustration)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Oct-2015		20-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED