Species Hylaeus (Xenohylaeus) kelvini (Cockerell, 1912)

Museums

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• Prosopis kelvini Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 484-494 [Date published 31/12/1912] [489].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/4149 ♀, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD.
• Hylaeus gibbonsi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] [223].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K49012 ♀, 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] [119]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (as Meroglossa kelvini (Cockerell, 1912))

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) kelvini (Cockerell, 1912))

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)

Michener, C.D. 1992. Sexual dimorphism in the glossa of Colletidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 65: 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1992] (glossa)

Rayment, T. 1948. Notes on remarkable wasps and bees. With specific descriptions. The Australian Zoologist 11: 238-254 [Date published 31/12/1948] (description of male, as Sphaerhylaeus gibbonsi (Cockerell, 1929))

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