Species Megachile semiluctuosa Smith, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Megachile semiluctuosa Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [172].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ (a female specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.2393), Adelaide, SA.
• Megachile blackburnii Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Hymenoptera (of the Elder Expedition). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 69-73 [Date published 31/12/1893] [72].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Mt Squires, NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [323].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [323]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest of resin cells in Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae] wood, flower visiting record: Crotolaria L. [Fabaceae], Eremophila R. Br. [Myoporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Senecio L. [Asteraceae], Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Bees of the genus Megachile from Australia. The Entomologist 46: 164-168 [Date published 31/12/1913] (distribution)

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

Froggatt, W.W. 1907. Australian Insects. Sydney : W. Brooks & Co. xiv 449 pp., 37 pls. [Date published April 11, 1907] (illustration, pl. xvi, as Megachile blackburni Froggatt, 1893)

Hopper, S.D. 1981. Foraging behaviour of megachilid bees on Swainsona canescens (Fabaceae) and its coevolutionary implications. Western Australian Naturalist 15: 8-11 [Date published 31/12/1981] (flower record)

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)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1912. Notes on the Apidae (Hymenoptera) in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 461-478 [Date published 31/12/1912] (as Megachile (Eumegachile) semiluctuosa Smith, 1853)

Rayment, T. 1950. A new and remarkable organ on a resin-bee. Victorian Naturalist 66: 163-168 [Date published 31/12/1950] (biology)

Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38 (biology)

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