Megachile (Eutricharaea)

Megachile (Eutricharaea)Megachile chrysopyga Megachile macularis

Megachile (Eutricharaea) is the most diverse subgenus of Megachile, and at time of writing currently consists of 35 known species in Australia, whilst in the USA they have approximately listed 240 species.

Megachile (Eutricharaea) range from southern Europe to southern Africa to eastern and southern Asia, Australia, and Oceania (Michener 2007). They are also found in the Americas.

The Megachile (Eutricharaea) are highly variable in colour, although many species are small with black integument and pale apical hair bands on their terga (Michener 2007; Gonzalez 2008). The female Megachile (Eutricharaea) usually have white scopa except for on the apical sterna, but can have entirely golden or black scopa (Michener 2007; Praz 2017). The Megachile (Eutricharaea) range in body length from 5–16 mm (Michener 2007).¹

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• Scientific classification
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Subphylum: Hexapoda
• Class: Insecta
• Informal: Pterygotes
• Order: Hymenoptera
• Superfamily: Apoidea
• Informal: Apiformes
• Family: Megachilidae
• Subfamily: Megachilinae
• Tribe: Megachilini
• Genus: Megachile
• Subgenus: infrageneric Eutricharaea
• Species:
  1. Megachile (Eutricharaea) austeni Cockerell, 1906
  2. Megachile (Eutricharaea) australasiae Dalla Torre, 1896
  3. Megachile (Eutricharaea) captionis Cockerell, 1914
  4. Megachile (Eutricharaea) cetera Cockerell, 1912
  5. Megachile (Eutricharaea) chrysopyga Smith, 1853
  6. Megachile (Eutricharaea) chrysopygopsis Cockerell, 1929
  7. Megachile (Eutricharaea) ciliatipes Cockerell, 1921
  8. Megachile (Eutricharaea) cygnorum Cockerell, 1906
  9. Megachile (Eutricharaea) darwiniana Cockerell, 1906
  10. Megachile (Eutricharaea) detersa Cockerell, 1910
  11. Megachile (Eutricharaea) gahani Cockerell, 1906
  12. Megachile (Eutricharaea) haematogastra Cockerell, 1921
  13. Megachile (Eutricharaea) hampsoni Cockerell, 1906
  14. Megachile (Eutricharaea) ignescens Cockerell, 1929
  15. Megachile (Eutricharaea) kurandensis Cockerell, 1910
  16. Megachile (Eutricharaea) kuschei Cockerell, 1939
  17. Megachile (Eutricharaea) leucopogon Cockerell, 1929
  18. Megachile (Eutricharaea) lineatipes Cockerell, 1910
  19. Megachile (Eutricharaea) maculariformis Cockerell, 1907
  20. Megachile (Eutricharaea) macularis Dalla Torre, 1896
  21. Megachile (Eutricharaea) obtusa Smith, 1853
  22. Megachile (Eutricharaea) phenacopyga Cockerell, 1910
  23. Megachile (Eutricharaea) pictiventris Smith, 1879
  24. Megachile (Eutricharaea) quinquelineata Cockerell, 1906
  25. Megachile (Eutricharaea) rhodogastra Cockerell, 1910
  26. Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundata (Fabricius, 1787)
  27. Megachile (Eutricharaea) rowlandi Cockerell, 1930
  28. Megachile (Eutricharaea) rufopilosa Friese, 1911
  29. Megachile (Eutricharaea) sequior Cockerell, 1910
  30. Megachile (Eutricharaea) serricauda Cockerell, 1910
  31. Megachile (Eutricharaea) simplex Smith, 1853
  32. Megachile (Eutricharaea) subsericeicauda Rayment, 1939
  33. Megachile (Eutricharaea) tenuicincta Cockerell, 1929
  34. Megachile (Eutricharaea) waterhousei Cockerell, 1906
  35. Megachile (Eutricharaea) wyndhamensis Rayment, 1935

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