Megachile (Eutricharaea) australasiae Dalla-Torre, 1896*

Zakardjian, Marie, Jourdan, Herve, Cochenille, Thomas, Mahe, Prisca & Geslin, Benoit, 2023, Checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of New Caledonia, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 105291-105291 : 105291

Megachile (Eutricharaea) australasiae Dalla-Torre, 1896*

Native status

Native

Distribution

Its presence in Australia and Papua New Guinea remains to be confirmed.

Historical data in New Caledonia: Coinde, 12 Jan 1912, three males and one female. Bourail, 23 Jan 1912, three females ( von Schulthess 1915).

Notes

The presence of this species is doubtful in New Caledonia as it was only mentioned by von Schulthess (1915) who spent one year on a field trip in New Caledonia between 1911 and 1912. As pointed out by Cockerell (1929), it is hard to understand how Sarasin and Roux could have collected this species and yet failed to find common endemic species ( Megachile australis or Megachile albomarginata ). We then hypothesise that those individuals are misidentified individuals of M. albomarginata .

Occurrence status: data deficient.