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One of my favourite places to photograph insects is the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens (ERBG). Although it too was damaged very badly by the fires of 2019/2020, the insect life is slowly returning. It was pleasing to get a photograph there of a seldom-recorded member of the Colletidae bee family, Trichocolletes orientalis. Once again, Michael Batley and Peter Abbott were instrumental in narrowing down the ID and confirming the species.

Source: Rediscovering our long-lost Insects by Phil Warburton
Trichocolletes orientalis (Plasterer Bee) feeding on Hardenbergia violacea, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens NSW © Phil Warburton
Trichocolletes orientalis (Plasterer Bee) feeding on Hardenbergia violacea, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens NSW © Phil Warburton
  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Subphylum: Hexapoda
  • Class: Insecta
  • Informal: Pterygotes
  • Order: Hymenoptera
  • Superfamily: Apoidea
  • Informal: Apiformes
  • Family: Colletidae
  • Subfamily: Neopasiphaeinae
  • Genus: Trichocolletes
  • Species: Trichocolletes orientalis

Footnote & References

  1. Trichocolletes orientalis (extract from Rediscovering our long-lost Insects © Phil Warburton
  2. Trichocolletes orientalis Batley & Houston, 2012, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/7216ef87-e51a-4ac5-9803-3727baa2b7e6

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