Species Stenotritus pubescens (Smith, 1868)
- Oestropsis pubescens Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868] [253].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Geraldton (as Champion Bay), WA, SA (the type locality has not been resolved; holotype labelled as WA)
Comment: a male specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.2746.
Distribution
States
Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Brisbane, Finniss Springs Station (51 km W Marree) and Champion Bay, no specific localities for VIC.
IBRA
Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in aggregations in soil, flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1904. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. The Canadian Entomologist 36: 301-304 [Date published 31/12/1904] (redescription)
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] (distribution)
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 484-494 [Date published 31/12/1912] (distribution)
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Descriptions and records of bees. CXV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 3: 354-360 [Date published 31/12/1929] (generic placement)
Houston, T.F. 1975. Nests, behaviour and larvae of the bee Stenotritus pubescens (Smith) and behaviour of some related species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Stenotritinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 14: 145-154 [Date published 31/12/1975] (biology)
Houston, T.F. 1983. A revision of the bee genus Ctenocolletes (Hymenoptera: Stenotritidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 10: 269-306 [Date published 31/12/1983] (illustration)
Houston, T.F. & Thorp, R.W. 1984. Bionomics of the bee Stenotritus greavesi and ethological characteristics of Stenotritidae (Hymenoptera). Records of the Western Australian Museum 11: 375-85 [Date published 31/12/1984] (biology)
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] (illustration)
McGinley, R.J. 1981. Systematics of the Colletidae based on mature larvae with phenetic analysis of apoid larvae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 91: 1-309 [Date published 31/12/1981] (larva)
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] (taxonomy)
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