Species Leioproctus (Minycolletes) helichrysi (Cockerell, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracolletes helichrysi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1918. Some bees collected in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 112-120 [Date published 31/12/1918] [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.474 ♀, Mt Tamborine, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Leioproctus (Microcolletes) helichrysi (Cockerell, 1918). —
  Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] [55]
• Leioproctus (Minycolletes) helichrysi (Cockerell, 1918). —
  Maynard, G.V. 2013. Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa. Zootaxa 3715(1): 1-114 [90]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Erigeron L., Helichrysum bracteatum blossom [Asteraceae].

General References

Maynard, G.V. 1991. Revision of Leioproctus (Protomorpha) Rayment (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) with description of two new species. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 30: 67-75 [Date published 31/12/1991] (taxonomy)

Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] (flower record)

History of changes