Species Amphylaeus (Amphylaeus) morosus (Smith, 1879)

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Species Amphylaeus (Amphylaeus) morosus (Smith, 1879)

Prosopis morosa Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [26].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.88 ♀, Australia.
Prosopis sculptifrons Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] [84].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.102 ♂, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
Meroglossa hardcastlei 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] [273].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, White Swamp, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Houston, T.F. 1975. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). I. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 36: 1-135 [Date published 31/12/1975] [75]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Multifemale nests without division of labour, nests in dry Xanthorrhoea [Xanthorrhoeaceae] stems, in twigs of Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae], in dry fronds of Cyathea Smith [Cyatheaceae], flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Aster L. [Asteraceae], Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Gompholobium Sm. [Fabaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. London : CAB International 832 pp. [252] (as host to Eupelmophotismus pulcher (Girault))

Cane, J.H. 1979. The hind tibiotarsal and tibial spur articulations in bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 52: 123-137 [Date published 31/12/1979] (hind spur articulation)

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [33] (biology)

McGinley, R.J. 1980. Glossal morphology of the Colletidae and recognition of the Stenotritidae at the family level (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 53: 539-552 [Date published 31/12/1980] (glossa)

McGinley, R.J. 1981. Systematics of the Colletidae based on mature larvae with phenetic analysis of apoid larvae (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 91: 1-309 [Date published 31/12/1981] (larva)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) morosus (Smith, 1879) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) sculptifrons (Cockerell, 1921))

Michener, C.D. 1960. Notes on the behavior of Australian colletid bees. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 33: 22-31 [Date published 31/12/1960] (biology, as Meroglossa sculptifrons (Cockerell, 1921))

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)

Michener, C.D. & Fraser, A. 1978. A comparative anatomical study of mandibular structure in bees. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 51: 463-482 [Date published 31/12/1978] (mandible)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (flower record)

Spessa, A., Schwarz, M.P. & Adams, M. 2000. Sociality in Amphylaeus morosus (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Hylaeinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93(3): 684-692 [684] (biology)