Species Trichocolletes dowerinensis Rayment, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichocolletes dowerinensis Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Dowerin, WA.

 

Generic Combinations

• Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) dowerinensis Rayment, 1931.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southwestern Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Burtonia hendersoni, Daviesia aphylla, Daviesia croniniana, Daviesia incrassata ssp. teres, Jacksonia ulicina, Jacksonia velutina, Gastrolobium glaucum, Gastrolobium ilicifolium, Pultenaea sp., Swainsona microphylla

 

Diagnosis

Length male c. 12 mm, female c. 14 mm; eyes hairy; metasomal bands broad silver. Male hind tibia and basitarsus broad, flat; metasoma with prominent stiff, black setae. Female pygidial plate with deep, linear emargination, tarsal claws simple.

 

Diagnosis References

Batley, M. & Houston, T.F. 2012. Revision of the Australian bee genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini). Records of the Australian Museum 64(1): 1-50 [Date published 23 May 2012]

 

General References

Batley, M. & Houston, T.F. 2012. Revision of the Australian bee genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini). Records of the Australian Museum 64(1): 1-50 [Date published 23 May 2012]

Rayment, T. 1934. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. VIII. Apoidea. With description of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 201-212 [Date published 31/12/1934] (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. (illustration)

 

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