Species Callomelitta littleri Cockerell, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Callomelitta littleri Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Some Tasmanian bees. The Entomologist 47: 305-308 [Date published 31/12/1914] [305].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.544 ♀, Launceston, TAS.
• Callomelitta nigrofasciata Cockerell, T.D.A. 1918. Descriptions and records of bees. LXXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 1: 158-167 [Date published 31/12/1918] [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, Launceston, TAS.
• Callomelitta nigriventris Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [231].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♀ (location of other specimen(s) unknown), Adelaide, SA (probably incorrect, possibly from Sydney area).

  Type locality references:

  Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [8].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] [88] (for Callomelitta nigrofasciata Cockerell, 1918)
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [8] (for Callomellitta nigriventris Friese, 1924)

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), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in rotting wood.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] (taxonomy, distribution)

History of changes