Species Palaeorhiza (Callorhiza) disrupta Cockerell, 1914

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Species Palaeorhiza (Callorhiza) disrupta Cockerell, 1914

Palaeorhiza parallela disrupta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Australian bees of the family Prosopididae. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 2: 97-101 [Date published 31/12/1914] [98].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.194 ♀, Kuranda, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Melastoma L. [Melastomataceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [16] (subspecies to species)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Australian bees in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche (Cambridge) 37: 141-154 [Date published 31/12/1930] (distribution)

Exley, E.M. 1987. Bees at the Jardine, Aug.–Sept. 1985. Queensland Naturalist 28: 33-34 [Date published 31/12/1987] (flower record)

Hirashima, Y. 1989. A synopsis of the bee genus Palaeorhiza Perkins (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) of New Guinea. Part VIII. Subgenus Callorhiza. Esakia 28: 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1989] (subgeneric placement)

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)