Species Megachile ferox Smith, 1879
- Megachile ferox Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [64].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2400 ♂, Swan River, WA.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Brisbane, Ararat, Swan River and Yallingup.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Flower visiting record: Bursaria spinosa Cavanilles [Pittosporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Jacksonia R. Brown [Fabaceae].
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 272-284 [Date published 31/12/1910] (distribution)
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. LII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 530-542 [Date published 31/12/1913] (description of female)
Hacker, H. 1915. Notes on the genus Megachile and some rare insects collected during 1913–14. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 137-141 [Date published 31/12/1915] (flower record)
King, J. 1994. The bee family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Australia. I. Morphology of the genus Chalicodoma Lepeletier, and a revision of the subgenus Hackeriapis Cockerell. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8(6): 1373-1419 [1379] (morphology, as Chalicodoma ferox)
Meade-Waldo, G. 1915. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. VI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 325-335 [Date published 31/12/1915] (description of female)
Rayment, T. 1928. Studies of Australian bees. I. The leaf-cutting bees (Megachile macularis, Dalla Torre, and other species). II. The clay-bees. (Lithurgus atratiformis, Cockerell). Victorian Naturalist 45: 79-86 [Date published 31/12/1928] (doubtful record, as leafcutter)
History of changes
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