Species Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopis) albonitens (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Prosopis albonitens Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 392-403 [Date published 31/12/1905] [399].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.73 ♂, Mackay, QLD.
• Prosopis albipes Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [224] [junior primary homonym of Prosopis albipes Panzer, 1809].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH ♂, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Houston, T.F. 1981. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). II. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 80: 1-128 [Date published 31/12/1981] [52]; Cardale, J.C. in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds) 1993. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 10 x, 406 pp. [124] (interprets Houston's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houston, T.F. 1981. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). II. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 80: 1-128 [Date published 31/12/1981] [52]
• Bartareau, T. 1995. Pollination and breeding systems in varieties of Dendrobium canaliculatum and their implications on the taxonomic status of the group. Orchadian 11(8): 381-387 [Date published June] [387] (flower visiting record)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Dendrobium Sw. [Orchidaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eugenia L. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Owenia F. Muell. [Meliaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Xanthorrhoea Smith [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Evans, H.E. & Matthews, R.W. 1973. Systematics and nesting behavior of Australian Bembix sand wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 20: iv, 1-387 [Date published 31/12/1973] (as prey)

Li, Z.M., Batra, S.W.T. & Plimmer, J.R. 1990. The chemical characterization of the cephalic secretion of the Australian colletid bee, Hylaeus albonitens (Gnathoprosopis Cockerell). Chinese Journal of Chemistry 1990(2): 160-168 [160] (biology)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) albonitens (Cockerell, 1905))

Rayment, T. 1939. Bees from the high lands of New South Wales and Victoria. The Australian Zoologist 9: 263-294 [Date published 31/12/1939] (doubtful record White Swamp, NSW, as Pachyprosopis albonitens Cockerell, 1905)

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