Species Megachile ustulata Smith, 1862
- Megachile ustulata Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new species of Australian Hymenoptera, and of a species of Formica from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 53-62 [Date published 31/12/1862] [61].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2308 ♀, Australia.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Kuranda, Mackay, Brisbane, Pialba and [Lamington] National Park, Macpherson Range, also recorded from New Guinea.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest of resin in crevices and holes in timber.
General References
Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. London : CAB International 832 pp. [85] (as host of Leucospis histrio vespoides (Girault))
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Descriptions and records of bees. XCV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 10: 265-269 [Date published 31/12/1922] (as
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)
Friese, H. 1911. Auffallende Megachile-Arten des Sunda-Archipels. (Apidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1911: 217-220 [Date published 31/12/1911] (description of male, New Guinea)
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] (biology)
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 [1373] (not included in Hackeriapis)
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