Amegilla albiclypeata
Amegilla albiclypeata is an Australian bee described by Remko Leijs in 2020. Its name refers to its pale face marks. The specimens establishing the name include bees collected near Useless Loop Road in Western Australia in November 1998.[1]
Appearance and records
Both sexes have ivory-coloured facial marks. Females have orange hairs on the outside of the hind tibial pollen brush and only a few black hairs at the front corners of the second upper abdominal plate. Males have a rectangular patch of black bristles on the fourth abdominal sternite, an underside plate.[1]
The revision examined seven males and two females. It records flower visits to Calothamnus formosus formosus and C. blepharospermus. The number of specimens in that study is not an estimate of the wild population, and the flower records do not show that those plants are the bee's only food sources.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Leijs, Remko; Dorey, James; Hogendoorn, Katja (2020). “The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: a revision of the subgenus Asaropoda”. ZooKeys 908:45–122. doi:10.3897/zookeys.908.47375. Species treatment.