TrichocolletesTrichocolletes dives Trichocolletes orientalis Trichocolletes pulcherrimus Trichocolletes rufibasis
Images and Author Marc Newman ◦
The Trichocolletes dives male was captured and cooled for these photos. Location was Mingenew in Western Australia.
Was on a Daviesia brachyphylla, a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Apoidea
- Informal: Apiformes
- Family: Colletidae
- Subfamily: Colletinae
- Genus: Trichocolletes
- Species: Trichocolletes dives
Footnote & References
- Trichocolletes dives, Photographs and content © Marc Newman, Flickr, https://flickr.com/photos/koolbee/albums
- Batley, Michael, and Terry F. Houston, 2012. Revision of the Australian bee genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini). Records of the Australian Museum 64(1): 1–50. [Published 23 May 2012]. Australian Museum Scientific Publications, https://media.australian.museum/media/Uploads/Journals/24792/1589_complete.pdf
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