Species Callohesma aurantifera (Cockerell, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euryglossa aurantifera Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 139-149 [Date published 31/12/1912] [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Euryglossa cambournii 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] [270].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Gosford, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Exley, E.M. 1974. Revision of the subgenus Callohesma Michener (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 26: 1-58 [Date published 31/12/1974] [30]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae].

General References

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

History of changes