Megachile (Callomegachile) umbripennis Smith, 1853

Zakardjian, Marie, Jourdan, Herve, Cochenille, Thomas, Mahe, Prisca & Geslin, Benoit, 2023, Checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of New Caledonia, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 105291-105291 : 105291

Megachile (Callomegachile) umbripennis Smith, 1853

Megachile domesticum Perkins, 1899;

Megachile lerma Cameron, 1908;

Megachile schauinslandi Alfken, 1898;

Megachile umbripennis var. atriventris Friese, 1903;

Chalicodoma umbripenne (Smith, 1853);

Megachile aureobasis Cockerell, 1919.

Feeds on

Duranta repens ( Pauly and Munzinger 2003); Asteraceae : Bidens pilosa (alien); Polygonaceae : Antigonon leptotus (alien); Protaceae : Stenocarpus sp. (native); Cytisus cajan (alien) ( Donovan et al. 2013).

Native status

Likely alien. Pauly & Munzinger (2003) hypothesised that this species could be alien because it was captured in Noumea, while visiting an alien plant species.

Distribution

Native range: China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Laos.

Alien range: United States, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, many Pacific islands including Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, northern Mariana Islands, Tonga, Hawaii ( Ascher et al. 2016).

Historical data in New Caledonia: Dec. 1979-Sep 2008, eight males and two females. Noumea, 15 Oct 1980, two females ( Donovan et al. 2013). Nouméa, 7 Feb 1999, two males ( Pauly and Munzinger 2003). Koumac, 30 Apr 2017, two females. Mont Dore: La Conception, 23 Mar 2022, one individual ( Zakardjian et al. 2023b).