Macrogalea ellioti (Saussure, 1890)

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Michener, C.D. 1971. The bee genus Macrogalea. Entomological Essays to Commemorate the Retirement of Professor K. Yasumatsu Hokuryukan Publishing Co., Tokyo

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Arthropoda

class

Insecta

order

Hymenoptera

family

Apidae

genus

Macrogalea

species

Macrogalea ellioti

Name

Homonyms

Macrogalea ellioti (Saussure, 1890)

Common names

Elliot's Giant-Reed bee in English

Bibliographic References

1. Chenoweth, L.B., S.M. Tierney, J.A. Smith, S.J.B. Cooper and M.P. Schwarz. 2007. Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 246-254
2. Eardley, C.D. and R.P. Urban. 2010. Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes). Zootaxa 2455: 1-548
3. Michener, C.D. 1971. The bee genus Macrogalea. Entomological Essays to Commemorate the Retirement of Professor K. Yasumatsu Hokuryukan Publishing Co., Tokyo
4. Michener, C.D. 1975. A taxonomic study of African allodapine bees (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae, Ceratinini). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 155: 67-240
5. Michener, C.D. 1977. Allodapine bees of Madagascar (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum Novitates 2622: 1-18
6. Pauly, A., R.W. Brooks, L.A. Nilsson, Y.A. Pesenko, C.D. Eardley, M. Terzo, T.L. Griswold, M. Schwarz, S. Patiny, J. Munzinger and Y. Barbier. 2001. Hymenoptera Apoidea de Madagascar et des Iles Voisines. Annales Sciences Zoologiques, Musée Royal de l'Afr
7. Smith, J.A. 2007. Facultative social parasitism in the allodapine bee Macrogalea berentyensis. Insect Science 14: 65-69
8. Smith, J.A. and M.P. Schwarz. 2006. Sociality in a Malagasy allodapine bee, Macrogalea antanosy, and the impact of the facultative social parasite, Macrogalea maizina. Insectes Sociaux 53: 101-107
9. Smith, J.A., M.P. Schwarz and T.W. Chapman. 2006. Sociality in the allodapine bee genus Macrogalea: insights from two Malagasy species. African Entomology 14: 147-152
10. Tierney, S.M. and M.P. Schwarz. 2003. Taxonomic description of allodapine bees from the Zanzibar archipelago, genus Macroalea (Hymenoptera: Apidae). African Entomology 11: 199-203
11. Tierney, S.M., M.P. Schwarz and T. Neville. 2005. Sociality in the phylogenetically basal allodapine bee genus macrogalea (Apidae: Xylocopinae): implications for social evelution in the tribe Allodapini . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76(2): 2