Xylocopa hydrobiae Zeuner 1938 (large carpenter bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1938. Die Insektenfauna des Mainzer Hydrobienkalks. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 20:104-159

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

See also Zeuner 1938

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

Type specimen: Mainz Natural History Museum 123, a forewing. Its type locality is Dyckeroff's quarry, Biebrich near Mainz-Castel, which is in an Aquitanian lacustrine lime mudstone in the Hydrobienkalk Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dyckeroff's quarry, Biebrich near Mainz-Castel

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