Species Callohesma calliopsella (Cockerell, 1910)

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• Euryglossa calliopsella Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] [208].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.284 ♀, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [42].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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: solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae]; Eucalyptus L'Hér. [Myrtaceae]; Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1911. Descriptions and records of bees. XXXVIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 283-290 [Date published 31/12/1911] (description of male)

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] (redescription)

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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