Xylocopa aeratus (lat.) Is a species of wood carpenter bees from the tribe Xylocopini of the bee family ( Apidae ).
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 Xylocopa aeratus carpenter bee | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Xylocopa aeratus ( Smith , 1851) |
Distribution
Australia : Victoria , New South Wales , South Australia [1] [2] [3] .
Description
Large carpenter bees of greenish-bronze color with a metallic sheen (in some places with a purple and bluish sheen). Able to sting, but cases of stinging a person have not been recorded [2] . Nests in dead or drying wood of such plants as Xanthorrhoea ( Asparagaceae ), Banksia ( Protecaceae ) and Tea Tree ( Myrtle ), Casuarina ( Bouciflowers ) [2] [3] . The moves are gnawed by the jaws (the length of the strokes is up to 30 cm and the diameter is from 1.1 cm to 1.4 cm), sawdust is thrown out. Each larva is stored and fed a mixture of nectar and pollen in an individual cell. Several females can live together in one nest, while one female breeds, while others guard the brood. Bees block the entrance to the nest (its diameter is from 0.7 mm to 1.0 cm) with its own abdomen. Females and males overwinter in nesting passages [2] .
They visit flowers of plants from the legume family ( Gompholobium , for example, Gompholobium latifolium in spring and Pultenaea elliptica in autumn), Thin seedling ( Myrtle ), Leucopogon ( Heather ) [2] [3] .
The species was first described in 1851 by the English entomologist Frederick Smith (1805–1879) and named the Latin word aeratus (bronze) by color (known in Australia as the Golden-green carpenter bee ) [4] .
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Notes
- ↑ Michener, CD The bees of the world, second edition. - Baltimore and London ,: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 .-- 953 p.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Dollin, Anne; Batley, Michael. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. - North Richmond, NSW: Australian Native Bee Research Center, 2000. - P. 58-59. - ISBN 1-876307-07-2 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Species Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus (Smith, 1851 ) . Australian Biological Resources Study Australian Faunal Directory . environment.gov.au. Date of treatment July 21, 2014. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Smith, F. 1851. Notes on the habits of Australian Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 1: 179-181, pl. xvi figs 4, 5
Literature
- Hurd, PD & JS Moure. A classification of the large carpenter bees (Xylocopini) (Hymenoptera: Apoidea ) // University of California Publications in Entomology: Journal. - University of California, 1963. - Vol. 29. - P. 1-365.
Links
- Xylocopa aeratus (Eol ) . eol.org. Date of treatment July 21, 2014.
- Xylocopa aeratus (BioLib ) . biolib.cz. Date of treatment July 21, 2014.