Species Hylaeus (Euprosopoides) perplexus (Smith, 1854)

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• Prosopis confusa Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [30] [junior primary homonym of Prosopis confusa Nylander, 1852].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.59 ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Prosopis perplexa Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London : British Museum pp. 199-465. [Date published 31/12/1854] [421] [nom. nov. for Prosopis confusa Smith, 1853].
• Prosopis metallicus Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new species of Australian Hymenoptera, and of a species of Formica from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 53-62 [Date published 31/12/1862] [59].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.57 ♂ (described as ♀), Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [403]; 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. [123] (interprets Cockerell's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Prosopis vicina Sichel, J. 1868. Hymenoptera Fossoria et Mellifera. Supplement. pp. 139–156 in, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Vol. 2(1a) Wien : K-K Hof- und Staatsdrückerei. [143].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♀, as Sydney, NSW (as 'Aukland' and 'Tasmania').

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [132].
• Prosopis major Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [228].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, Sydney, NSW.

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] [41]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: (males only) Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

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] (taxonomy)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) perplexus (Smith, 1854), Hylaeus (Koptogaster) metallicus (Smith, 1862) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) vicinus (Sichel, 1868))

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