Species Palaeorhiza (Heterorhiza) melanura Cockerell, 1910
- Palaeorhiza melanura Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 496-506 [Date published 31/12/1910] [499].
Type data:
Syntype(s) USNM ♂ ♀, Cairns, QLD.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Cairns and Kuranda.
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.
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 17-31 [Date published 31/12/1910] (as Meroglossa melanura (Cockerell, 1910))
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (generic placement)
Hirashima, Y. & Lieftinck, M.A. 1982. Systematic studies on the genus Palaeorhiza of New Guinea collected by the third Archbold Expedition (I) (Hymenoptera, Colletidae). Esakia 19: 1-50 [Date published 31/12/1982] (taxonomy)
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)
Perkins, R.C.L. 1912. Notes, with descriptions of new species, on aculeate Hymenoptera of the Australian Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 96-121 [Date published 31/12/1912] (taxonomy)
History of changes
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