Species Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) parvula Rayment, 1935
- Xylocopa bryorum parvula 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. [725].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Wyndham, WA. - Xylocopa (Maiella) wallabia Lieftinck, M.A. 1957. Revision of the carpenter-bees (Xylocopa Latr., subgenus Maiella Michener) of the Papuan region (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Nova Guinea ns 8: 325-376 [Date published 31/12/1957] [369].
Type data:
Holotype ZMA ♂, Burnett River, QLD. - Xylocopa (Maiella) xerophila Lieftinck, M.A. 1957. Revision of the carpenter-bees (Xylocopa Latr., subgenus Maiella Michener) of the Papuan region (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Nova Guinea ns 8: 325-376 [Date published 31/12/1957] [371].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Brocks Creek, NT.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Leys, R. 2000. A revision of the Australian carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa Latreille, subgenera Koptortosoma Griboda and Lestis Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 115-136
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), 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
Hurd, P.D., Jr & Moure, J.S. 1963. A classification of the large carpenter bees (Xylocopini) (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 29: 1-365 [Date published 31/12/1963] (generic placement, subspecies to species)
Lieftinck, M.A. 1957. Revision of the carpenter-bees (Xylocopa Latr., subgenus Maiella Michener) of the Papuan region (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Nova Guinea ns 8: 325-376 [Date published 31/12/1957] (taxonomy, as Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) bryorum parvula Rayment, 1935)
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