Ceratina (Neoceratina) dentipes Friese, 1914
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Ceratina (Neoceratina) dentipes Friese, 1914 |
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Ceratina (Neoceratina) dentipes Friese, 1914
Feeds on
Verbenaceae : Stachytarpheta australis (alien), S. cayennensis (alien) ( Donovan et al. 2013); Euphorbiaceae : Euphorbia tannensis (alien); Goodeniaceae : Scaevola sericea (native); Lythraceae : Cuphea sp. (alien); Passifloraceae : Turnera ulmifolia (alien); Portulacaceae : Portulaca umbraticola (alien), Tribulus repens (alien) (new records).
Native status
Alien. This species is known to have been introduced in the southWest Pacific ( Groom et al. 2017).
Distribution
Native range: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taïwan, Thailand. Alien range: Hawaii, Cook islands, French Polynesia, Mauritius, Vanuatu, Solomon, Fiji, Samoa ( Groom et al. 2017, Shell and Rehan 2019).
Historical data in New Caledonia: 16 km SE La Foa, 20-22 Dec 1991, one female. Dec 1979-Sep 2008, three females ( Donovan et al. 2013). Tiga, 9 Apr 2017, four females. Koumac, 1 May 2017, one male and one female. Nouméa: Musée de la Ville, 24 Mar 2022, one individual; 27 Apr 2022, one individual; Magenta Tours, 22 Apr 2022, one individual ( Zakardjian et al. 2023b).
Notes
This carpenter bee nests in twigs. Several individuals may be observed in the same tunnel (i.e. pseudo-social behaviour, see Rehan et al. (2009)).
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