Amegilla asserta

Amegilla asserta
Foraging female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Genus:	Amegilla
Subgenus:	Zonamegilla
Species:	A. asserta
Binomial name
Amegilla asserta (Cockerell, 1926)
Synonyms
Amegilla perassertaRayment, 1947 Anthophora perassertaRayment, 1947 Anthophora perasserta assertiellaRayment, 1947 [1]

Amegilla asserta is a species of bee endemic to Australia, belonging to the family Apidae subfamily Apinae. Females forage by performing buzz pollination.^{[ citation needed ]}

Distribution

Amegilla asserta is found in eastern Australia, from Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, across temperate regions of Victoria and New South Wales, and along the east coast of Queensland. ^[2] The range includes the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. A. asserta is the more common of the two species found in Melbourne, ^[3] followed by A. chlorocyanea.

References

1. "Amegilla perasserta - -- Discover Life". discoverlife.org.
2. Leijs, Remko; Batley, Michael; Hogendoorn, Katja (2017-08-02). "The genus Amegilla (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini) in Australia: A revision of the subgenera Notomegilla and Zonamegilla". ZooKeys (653): 79–140. Bibcode:2017ZooK..653...79L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.653.11177 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   5345376 . PMID   28331394.
3. Dorey, James (24 January 2019). Bees of Australia : a photographic exploration. CSIRO. ISBN   978-1-4863-0849-1. OCLC   1030955218.

External links

• "Amegilla perasserta". Animal Diversity Web .
• Karunaratne, Inoka. "An Updated Checklist of Bees of Sri Lanka with New Records".