<div dir="ltr">From Dr Walker (forwarded by me):<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Walker, Ken</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwalker@museum.vic.gov.au">kwalker@museum.vic.gov.au</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:25 PM<br>Subject: RE: New Bee Species in Australia<br>To: Peter Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>>, Bee United <<a href="mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com">beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com</a>>, Pollinator List-serv <<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>>, Gerardo Camilo <<a href="mailto:camilogr@slu.edu">camilogr@slu.edu</a>>, Michael Arduser <<a href="mailto:arduser.michael@gmail.com">arduser.michael@gmail.com</a>>, mike arduser <<a href="mailto:arduser.mike@gmail.com">arduser.mike@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Australian
<i>Euhesma</i> bees are indeed a “weird” bee group – but Australian bees have many “weird” species uniquely adapted to our dry climate. Although belonging to the “short tongue” bee family Colletidae,
<i>Euhesma</i> bees often display amazing head and mouthpart modifications to access nectaries hidden in deep tubular flowers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The association between mouthpart modifications and feeding on
<i>Eremophila</i> is well known and these new species add more species to that list.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Zookeys paper describing these new species (with great sets of images) is open access here:
<a href="http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6185" target="_blank">http://zookeys.pensoft.net/<wbr>articles.php?id=6185</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The below URL is a comparative image table showing dorsal, lateral and head front images for most of the Australian
<i>Euhesma</i> species - except the recently described species. You can see the narrow head modification pops up quite often in this genus.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Please give this URL a while to resolve as it is on a slow server).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.padil.gov.au/pollinators/compare/images?pests=138994+138995+138996+138997+140652+138998+139000+139001+139002+139003+139004+138596+139006+139007+139009+139010+139011+139012+139015+139016+139017+139018+139020+139021+139022+139023+139024+139026+139028+139029+139030+139031+139032+139094+139064+139062+139266+139095+139065+139753+139061+139267+139755+139102+139103+139104+138597+139066+139101+139060+139096+139059+140595+139100+139097+139067+139098+139068+139058+139099+139063+139069+140607+140596+140606&characterTypes=17987+17991+17988" target="_blank">http://www.padil.gov.au/<wbr>pollinators/compare/images?<wbr>pests=138994+138995+138996+<wbr>138997+140652+138998+139000+<wbr>139001+139002+139003+139004+<wbr>138596+139006+139007+139009+<wbr>139010+139011+139012+139015+<wbr>139016+139017+139018+139020+<wbr>139021+139022+139023+139024+<wbr>139026+139028+139029+139030+<wbr>139031+139032+139094+139064+<wbr>139062+139266+139095+139065+<wbr>139753+139061+139267+139755+<wbr>139102+139103+139104+138597+<wbr>139066+139101+139060+139096+<wbr>139059+140595+139100+139097+<wbr>139067+139098+139068+139058+<wbr>139099+139063+139069+140607+<wbr>140596+140606&characterTypes=<wbr>17987+17991+17988</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However for me, the most bizarre
<i>Euhesma</i> mouthpart modification belongs to a species called <i>Euhesma tubulifera</i>. This species is restricted to south west Western Australia and visits the long corolla red flowers of
<i>Calothamnus</i>. Instead of “just” elongating its palps and then holding them together and through capillary action get the nectar to rise to the short glossa, this bee has elongated its palps to almost the entire length of its body but them fused them
into a straw-like cylinder which it pokes into the recessed nectaries and again through capillary action draws up the nectar to the short tongue glossa. Very cool.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This species was first described in 1983 but it took until 2011 for a citizen science person (Ms Linda Rogan) to first photograph this bee using its
unusual mouthparts. I have put together a montage of images showing this species.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">View here:
<a href="http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/padil/tubulifera_1.jpg" target="_blank">http://researchdata.museum.<wbr>vic.gov.au/padil/tubulifera_1.<wbr>jpg</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And, here is yet another “weird” desert adapted Australian bee – this time a halictine which occurs in some of the driest parts of central Australia.
It occurs only at salt pan, mound springs. These are small areas where highly salty water bubbles to the surface and the bubbling action forms a raised mound of sand/dirt. The only plant to grow on the sides of these mounds is
<i>Frankenia</i> and there is a bee that nests in the mound and feeds on this plant. The first specimen I saw of this species was in a collection and it was labelled “deformed” as the head is elongated due to a massive extension of the clypeus. The mouthparts,
in particular, the mentum and prementum (base of the mouthparts) are so elongated that this is the only Australian bee in which the fore coxae are widely separated to allow the mouthparts to sit between the fore coxae when at rest. I visited one of these
mound springs on a 40+ Celsius day and collected both sexes (males for the first time) and then I named the species
<i>Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) frankenia</i>. I have put together another montage of images showing the unusual features of this Aussie bee.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Enjoy.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ken<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peter Bernhardt [mailto:<a href="mailto:bernhap2@slu.edu" target="_blank">bernhap2@slu.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 23 September 2016 10:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bee United <<a href="mailto:beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">beemonitoring@yahoogroups.com</a><wbr>>; Pollinator List-serv <<a href="mailto:pollinator@lists.sonic.net" target="_blank">pollinator@lists.sonic.net</a>>; Gerardo Camilo <<a href="mailto:camilogr@slu.edu" target="_blank">camilogr@slu.edu</a>>; Michael Arduser <<a href="mailto:arduser.michael@gmail.com" target="_blank">arduser.michael@gmail.com</a>>; mike arduser <<a href="mailto:arduser.mike@gmail.com" target="_blank">arduser.mike@gmail.com</a>>; Walker, Ken <<a href="mailto:kwalker@museum.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">kwalker@museum.vic.gov.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> New Bee Species in Australia<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">A colleague at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney sent me the following news release. I went to the site but found only a photograph of the new Amegilla
(teddy bear) bee. Would someone have a photo to share of bees in the genus Euhesma? Are narrow heads that unusual in this genus? I'd need to check old papers and notebooks but believe I collected some Euhesma species on Acacia back in the early 1980's.</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">For those unfamiliar with emu bush or native fuchsia (Eremophila; Myoporaceae), this is a genus of over 200 species found primarily in Australia's drier, land
west. Supposedly the shiny fruits of some species are eaten by emus. Flowers of different species are variable in size and color but the only ones I'm familiar with are red, scentless and pollinated by native birds in the Meliphagidae. For a closer look
at the flowers see the following link...</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://anpsa.org.au/APOL22/jun01-2.html" target="_blank">http://anpsa.org.au/APOL22/<wbr>jun01-2.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> Ifeanna Tooth <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 22 September 2016 9:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> _RBGDT-SCIENCE & CONSERVATION BRANCH <<a href="mailto:PlantSciencesBranch@environment.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">PlantSciencesBranch@<wbr>environment.nsw.gov.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> New species of Eremophila pollinating bee found in SA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Hi Everyone, I thought some of you might find this interesting, regards, Ifeanna<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">South Australian bee specialists have uncovered four new native bee species – three of them with special narrow heads and unusual long mouth parts
allowing them to feed on emu bush flowers.<br>
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The four new native bees were found during the nature discovery project Bush Blitz expeditions at Cane River Conservation Park in the Pilbara region, WA, and Bon Bon State Reserve, south of Coober Pedy, in SA.<br>
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Published in the journal <a href="http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6185" target="_blank">ZooKeys</a> and led by the University of Adelaide’s <a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/katja.hogendoorn" target="_blank">Dr Katja Hogendoorn</a>, the
researchers describe the four new species in the genus Euhesma, based on evaluation of DNA ‘barcoding’ and morphological comparison of the bees with museum specimens.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The project is a collaboration with Dr Remko Leijs and Associate Professor Mark Stevens from the South Australian Museum.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From: <a href="https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news80582.html" target="_blank">https://www.adelaide.<wbr>edu.au/news/news80582.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">See image at: <a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/australias-largest-species-discovery-program-makes-discovery-near-roxby-downs/news-story/9413d522fc55b9a70188835e469c163b" target="_blank">http://www.adelaidenow.<wbr>com.au/news/south-australia/<wbr>australias-largest-species-<wbr>discovery-program-makes-<wbr>discovery-near-roxby-downs/<wbr>news-story/<wbr>9413d522fc55b9a70188835e469c16<wbr>3b</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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