Bibliography for Xylocopini

• Anderson, G.J. & Symon, D. 1988. Insect foragers on Solanum flowers in Australia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 75: 842-852 [Date published 31/12/1988]
• Cane, J.H. 1979. The hind tibiotarsal and tibial spur articulations in bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 52: 123-137 [Date published 31/12/1979]
• 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]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1939. Studies of the Pacific bees in the collection of Bishop Museum (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 15: 133-140 [Date published 31/12/1939]
• Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April]
• Fain, A. 1982. Sennertia Oudemans (Acari, Chaetodactylidae) on Australian bees. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 106: 67-70 [Date published 31/12/1982]
• Friese, H. 1914. Die Bienenfauna von Java. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 57: 1-61 [Date published 31/12/1914]
• Froggatt, W.W. 1896. The entomology of the grass-trees (Xanthorrhoea). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 74-87 [Date published 31/12/1896]
• Gerling, D., Velthuis, H.H.W. & Hefetz, A. 1989. Bionomics of the large carpenter bees of the genus Xylocopa. Annual Review of Entomology 34: 163-190 [Date published 31/12/1989]
• Goebel, R.L. 1986. Australian native bees. Queensland Agricultural Journal 112: 285-286 [Date published 31/12/1986]
• Gribodo, G. 1894. Note imenotterologiche. Nota II, continuazione. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26: 76-136, 262-314 [Date published 31/12/1894]
• Hacker, H. 1918. Entomological contributions. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 106-111 pls 31-32 [Date published 31/12/1918]
• Houston, T.F. 1974. Notes on the behaviour of an Australian carpenter bee, genus Xylocopa Latr. (Hymenoptera: Xylocopinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 2: 36-38 [Date published 31/12/1974]
• Houston, T.F. 1992. Biological observations of the Australian green carpenter bees, genus Lestis (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae: Xylocopini). Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 785-798 [Date published 31/12/1992]
• 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]
• Kirby, W. 1819. A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 454-482 [Date published 31/12/1819]
• Lepeletier, A.L.M. & Serville, A. 1828. Tome x. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. 832 pp. in Latreille, P.A., Lepeletier, A.L.M., Serville, A. & Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (eds). Encyclopédie Méthodique. Paris : Agasse. [Date published 31/12/1828]
• Leys, R, Cooper, S.J.B & Schwarz, M.P. 2002. Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the large carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 77: 249-266
• 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
• Leys, R. 2000. Mate locating strategies of the green carpenter bees Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus and X. (L.) bombylans. Journal of Zoology, London 252: 453-462
• 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]
• Lieftinck, M.A. 1957. The identity of some Fabrician types of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) 1B. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wetenschappen C 60: 441-450 [Date published 31/12/1957]
• Maa, T.-C. (as Tsing-chao Ma) 1938. The Indian species of the genus Xylocopa Latr. (Hymenoptera). Records of the Indian Museum 40: 265-329
• McKeown, K.C. 1918. Notes on the habits of (Lestis bombylans), the carpenter bee of the grass-trees. Australian Naturalist 4: 21-25 [Date published 31/12/1918]
• McKeown, K.C. 1945. Australian Insects. An Introductory Handbook. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W 303 pp. [Date published 31/12/1945]
• Michener, C.D. 1942. Taxonomic observations on bees with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 50: 273-282 [Date published 31/12/1942]
• 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]
• Michener, C.D. & Brooks, R.W. 1984. A comparative study of the glossae of bees (Apoidea). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 22: 1-73 [Date published 31/12/1984]
• Minckley, R.L. 1998. A Cladistic Analysis and Classification of the Subgenera and Genera of the Large Carpenter Bees, Tribe Xylocopini (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas 9: 1-47
• 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.
• Rayment, T. 1939. Bees from the high lands of New South Wales and Victoria. The Australian Zoologist 9: 263-294 [Date published 31/12/1939]
• Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953]
• Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38
• Ritsema, C. 1876. Acht nieuwe oost-indische Xylocopa-Soorten. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 19: 177-185 [Date published 31/12/1876]
• Sandhouse, G.A. 1943. The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 92(3156): 519-619 [Date published 31/12/1943]
• Smith, F. 1851. Notes on the habits of Australian Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 1: 179-181, pl. xvi figs 4, 5 [Date published 31/12/1851]
• Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London : British Museum pp. 199-465. [Date published 31/12/1854]
• Steen, Z. & Schwarz, M.P. 2000. Nesting and life cycle of the Australian green carpenter bees Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus Smith and Xylocopa (Lestis) bombylans (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 39(4): 291-300
• Winston, M. L. 1979. The proboscis of the long-tongued bees: a comparative study. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 51: 631-667 [Date published 31/12/1979]

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