Megachile (Maximegachile) maxillosa Guérin-Méneville, 1844
- Dataset
- Catalogue of Afrotropical Bees
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1844. Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, VII Insects. 576 pp. Baillière, Paris
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Megachilidae
- genus
- Megachile
- species
- Megachile galactogagates
Ecology
Visits flowers of: Acacia horrida, Acacia karroo, Acacia senegal, Adenolobus pechuelii, Asclepias buchenaviana, Blepharis capensis, Cleome elegantissima, Cleome sp., Cleome suffruticosa, Crotalaria argyraea, Crotalaria dinteri, Crotalaria podocarpa, Crotalaria sp., Crotalaria virgultalis, Geigeria pectidea, Indigofera filipes, Indigofera sp., Lessertia macrostachya, Monechma genistifolium, Monechma sp., Monechma spartioides, Polygala leptophylla, Sesamum sp., Sesamum tryphyllum, Tephrosia oxygona
Name
Bibliographic References
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- Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1844. Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, VII Insects. 576 pp. Baillière, Paris