Ceratina (Neoceratina) dentipes Friese, 1914
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Ceratina (Neoceratina) dentipes Friese, 1914 |
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Ceratina (Neoceratina) dentipes Friese, 1914
Feeds on
Verbenaceae : Stachytarpheta australis (alien), S. cayennensis (alien) ( Donovan et al. 2013); Euphorbiaceae : Euphorbia tannensis (alien); Goodeniaceae : Scaevola sericea (native); Lythraceae : Cuphea sp. (alien); Passifloraceae : Turnera ulmifolia (alien); Portulacaceae : Portulaca umbraticola (alien), Tribulus repens (alien) (new records).
Native status
Alien. This species is known to have been introduced in the southWest Pacific ( Groom et al. 2017).
Distribution
Native range: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taïwan, Thailand. Alien range: Hawaii, Cook islands, French Polynesia, Mauritius, Vanuatu, Solomon, Fiji, Samoa ( Groom et al. 2017, Shell and Rehan 2019).
Historical data in New Caledonia: 16 km SE La Foa, 20-22 Dec 1991, one female. Dec 1979-Sep 2008, three females ( Donovan et al. 2013). Tiga, 9 Apr 2017, four females. Koumac, 1 May 2017, one male and one female. Nouméa: Musée de la Ville, 24 Mar 2022, one individual; 27 Apr 2022, one individual; Magenta Tours, 22 Apr 2022, one individual ( Zakardjian et al. 2023b).
Notes
This carpenter bee nests in twigs. Several individuals may be observed in the same tunnel (i.e. pseudo-social behaviour, see Rehan et al. (2009)).
Donovan, Barry J., Munzinger, Jerome, Pauly, Alain, McPherson, Gordon, 2013. Flower-visiting records of the native bees of New Caledonia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 99 (1): 19 - 43
Groom, Scott V. C., Stevens, Mark I., Ramage, Thibault, Schwarz, Michael P., 2017. Origins and implications of apid bees (Hymentopera: Apidae) in French Polynesia. Entomological Science 20 (1): 65 - 75
Rehan, Sandra M., Richards, Miriam H., Schwarz, Michael P., 2009. Evidence of social nesting in the Ceratina of Borneo (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 82 (2): 194 - 209
Shell, Wyatt A., Rehan, Sandra M., 2019. Invasive range expansion of the small carpenter bee, Ceratina dentipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) into Hawaii with implications for native endangered species displacement. Biological Invasions 21 (4): 1155 - 1166
Zakardjian, M., Jourdan, H., Cochenille, T., Mahe, P., Geslin, B., 2023. Apoidea of New Caledonia 2017-2022. In: GBIF.
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