Species Coelioxys froggatti Cockerell, 1911

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• Coelioxys (Coelioxys) froggatti Cockerell, T.D.A. 1911. The bees of the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 160-178 [Date published 31/12/1911] [170].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM ♂ ♀, VIC.
• Coelioxys victoriae 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. [723].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Gunbower, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rocha-Filho, L. C. da 2016. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Australia. European Journal of Entomology 113: 9-28 [15]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Cleptoparasitic, flower visiting record: Ptilotus sp. [AMARANTHACEAE]; Jacksonia sp., Psoralea patens [FABACEAE]; Goodenia caerulea, Scaevola glandulifera [GOODENIACEAE]; Callistemon sp., Melaleuca sp., Eucalyptus largiflorens [MYRTACEAE]; Morgania sp. [PLANTAGINACEAE]; Comesperma sp. [POLYGALACEAE]; & Atalaya hemiglauca [SAPINDACEAE]

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930] (distribution)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1914. Notes on the Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of new species. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 450-464 [Date published 31/12/1914] (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1929. The cuckoo-bees, Coelioxys frogatti Cockerell. Victorian Naturalist 46: 58-61 [Date published 31/12/1929] (biology)

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. (biology)

Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38 (as host)

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