BIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE AUSTRALIAN GREEN CARPENTER BEES, GENUS LESTIS (HYMENOPTERA ANTHOPHORIDAE XYLOCOPINI)
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 15 (1991–1992) | Updated 11 Feb 2013
Part 4 785 785 HOUSTON, TERRY F. Abstract : Opportunistic obscrvations of the nests, provisions, life histories, forage plants, colony structure and nest associatcs of Lestis bombyIans and L. aeratus are recorded and discussed. L. aeratus is recorded from South Australia for the first time. Complex ...
THREE NEW, MONOLECTIC SPECIES OF EURYGLOSSA (EUHESMA) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA (HYMENOPTERA COLLETIDAE)
Abstract : Three new speeies of Euryglossa (Euhesma) ( E. aureophila. E. morrisoni and E. semaphore ) are described and figured. All are endemic to the Swan Coastal Plain of Western Australia. Euryglossa aureophila and E. morrisoni are monolectic on close ...
NOTES ON THE ETHOLOGY OF ROLANDIA MACULATA (HYMENOPTERA VESPIDAE MASARINAE), A POLLEN WASP WITH A PSAMMOPHORE
WA Museum Records and Supplements | Volume 17 (1995–1996) | Updated 14 Jan 2013
Abstract - Rolandia maculata (Meade-Waldo), a pollen wasp restricted to southwestern Australia, produces a single summer generation of adults. A nesting population was observed in Kings Park, Perth, where females excavated burrows solitarily in level sand ...