Species Megachile tasmanica Cockerell, 1916

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• Megachile tasmanica Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Descriptions and records of bees. LXXI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 17: 277-287 [Date published 31/12/1916] [277].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2347 ♂, George Town, TAS.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Brisbane and George Town.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] (distribution)

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 [1373] (not included in Hackeriapis)

Rayment, T. 1955. New species of bees and wasps—Part XXIV. Victorian Naturalist 71: 145-147 [Date published 31/12/1955] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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