<i>Megachile sculpturalis </i>(Smith, 1853) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), the giant resin bee new to South Tyrol with a newly described plant species interaction
- Author(s)
- Elia Guariento, Julia Lanner, Manuel Andreas Staggl, Petra Kranebitter
- Abstract
In this article we present a bee species newly documented for South Tyrol. The occur-
rence of Megachile sculpturalis in South Tyrol was recorded once in 2016 and four times in summer 2019. The species is an accidently introduced bee from South-East Asia that already colonized great parts of the US and is currently spreading across Central and Southern Europe. One record includes the observation of the alien wild bee visiting a sunflower, a hitherto unknown plant interaction for this species.- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Eurac Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, South Tyrol Museum of Natural History
- Journal
- Gredleriana
- Volume
- 19
- Pages
- 209-215
- ISSN
- 1593-5205
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3565365
- Publication date
- 2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105118 Palaeontology, 106054 Zoology
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/8e662910-bc31-416a-92c3-8be4ab9e01f3