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Biological observations on the primitively social bees of the genus «Allodapula» in the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Xylocopinæ)

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Contribution number 1183 from theDepartment of Entomology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Preparation of this paper was facilitated byNational Science Foundation grant G11967.

I wish to acknowledge facilities provided by theUniversity of Queensland through the courtesy of Mr.F. A. Perkins, Reader in Entomology and head of theDepartment of Entomology of that institution. The studies in Australia were possible thanks to a research grant from the Fulbright program of the United States Government. Studies in New Guinea were possible thanks to travel funds provided by the program on «Zoogeography and Evolution of Pacific Insects» (National Science Foundation Grant G4774 to the Bishop Museum, Honolulu) under the direction of Dr.J. Linsley Gressitt.

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Michener, C.D. Biological observations on the primitively social bees of the genus «Allodapula» in the Australian region (Hymenoptera, Xylocopinæ). Ins. Soc 9, 355–373 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02229635

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