Xylocopa senilis Heer 1849 (large carpenter bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264

Belongs to Xylocopa according to F. E. Zeuner and F. J. Manning 1976

See also Heer 1849, Heer 1864, Pongrácz 1931 and Scudder 1885

Sister taxa: Xylocopa atavus, Xylocopa celineae, Xylocopa diatoma, Xylocopa friesei, Xylocopa gabrielae, Xylocopa hydrobiae, Xylocopa jurinei, Xylocopa obata, Xylocopa veta

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Carlsruhe collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Germany (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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