Species Ceylalictus perditellus (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Nomioides perditellus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 216-225 [Date published 31/12/1905] [221].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♀ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.1079), QLD.
• Halictus (Nomioides) obliquus Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [236].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Mackay, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blüthgen, P. 1925. Die Bienengattung Nomioides Schenck. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 86: 1-100 [Date published 31/12/1925] [2]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Brachychiton Schott & Endl. [Sterculiaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Grevillea R.Br. ex J. Knight [Proteaceae], Lophostemon Schott [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Parsonsia R.Br. [Apocyanaceae], Salsola L. [Chenopodiaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae], Syzygium Gaertner [Myrtaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] (description of male)

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] [178, 183] (illustration, as Nomioides perditella Cockerell, 1905)

Yeates, D.K. & Exley, E.M. 1986. The genus Nomioides Schenck (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 115-121 [Date published 31/12/1986] (redescription, distribution, flower records)

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