South Australian Museum

A revision of the Australian leafcutter bees, previously placed in Megachile (Eutricharaea) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), with descriptions of seven new species

The species in the subgenus Eutricharaea Thompson, 1872 (genus Megachile) construct brood cells from pieces of leaves or petals cut from a diverse array of plants. Commonly bees in this group are called ’leafcutter bees’. The Australian species, as previously placed in Eutrichara...