Species Megachile (Schizomegachile) monstrosa Smith, 1868

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• Megachile monstrosa Smith, F. 1868. Descriptions of aculeate Hymenoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1868: 231-258 [Date published 31/12/1868] [256].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2293 ♀, Champion Bay (Geraldton), WA.
• Megachile cornifera Radoschkowsky, O. de B. 1874. Supplément indispensable à l'article publié par M. Gerstaecker, en 1869, sur quelques genres d'hyménoptères. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 48: 132-164 [=Radoszkowski, O.I.] [Date published 31/12/1874] [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Sydney, NSW (record from Sydney likely to be in error, subsequently collected from Southern Cross, WA).

  Type locality references:

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

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] [44]

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 North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Angophora Cavanilles [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Bees of the genus Megachile from Australia. The Entomologist 46: 164-168 [Date published 31/12/1913] (description of male, as Megachile cornifera Radoszkowski, 1874)

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 [1384] (morphology)

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] (illustration)

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

Smith, F. 1873. Natural history notices. Insects, Hymenoptera Aculeata. 456-463 pls xliii-xlv in Brenchley, J.L. (ed.). Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. Curaçoa among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London : Longmans, Green & Co. [Date published 31/12/1873] (illustration)

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