Species Megachile turneri (Meade-Waldo, 1913)

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• Thaumatosoma turneri Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. Four new species of Apidae (Hymenoptera) with notes on other species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 12: 491-497 [Date published 31/12/1913] [491].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2583 ♂, Kuranda, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Kuranda, Mackay, Darwin and Baudin Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Parinari nonda Benth. [Chrysobalanaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] (taxonomy)

King, J. 1986. The systematics of some Australian Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Unpubl. PhD Thesis. Brisbane : Univ. of Queensland. 439 pp. (distribution)

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 turneri)

 

History of changes

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