History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• 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] [76]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Paracolletes Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [6].

  Type species:

   Paracolletes crassipes Smith, 1853 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Tetralonia brevicornis Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London : British Museum pp. 199-465. [Date published 31/12/1854] [303].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.498 ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] (as Reepenia brevicornis (Smith, 1854))

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. CXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 18: 216-227 [Date published 31/12/1926] (generic placement)

History of changes

• Tetralonia convicta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1909. Descriptions and records of bees. XXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 4: 309-317 [Date published 31/12/1909] [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.528 ♂, Australia.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Only published locality Port Phillip.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Some Australian bees in the Berlin Museum. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 18: 98-114 [Date published 31/12/1910] (distribution)

History of changes

• Paracolletes crassipes Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.422 ♀, Swan River, WA.
• Paracolletes australis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [220].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♂ ♀, Sydney and Mittagong, NSW and Adelaide, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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]] [1]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. On a collection of Australian and Asiatic bees. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 221-236 [Date published 31/12/1907] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 377-387 [Date published 31/12/1912] (description of male)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 136-146 [Date published 31/12/1914] (distribution)

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] (flower record)

Rayment, T. 1947. What of the Planidia? Victorian Naturalist 64: 31-32 [Date published 31/12/1947] (as host)

Rozen, J.G. Jr. & Houston, T.F. 2022. Descriptions of the mature larvae of three Australian ground-nesting Bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Diphaglossinae and Neopasiphaeinae). American Museum Novitates 3989: 1-15

History of changes

• Paracolletes fervidus Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.414 ♀, Australia (as New Holland).

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Only published locality Tooradin.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

Rayment, T. 1949. New bees and wasps—Part XI. Two confusing earth-digging bees. Victorian Naturalist 66: 33-36 [Date published 31/12/1949] (redescription)

History of changes

• Paracolletes crassipes leptospermi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 377-387 [Date published 31/12/1912] [378].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.475 ♂, Mackay, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mackay and Jamberoo.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

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] [78] (taxonomy)

Rayment, T. 1954. Remarkable bees from a rain forest. The Australian Zoologist 12: 46-56 [Date published 31/12/1954] (distribution)

History of changes

• Paracolletes rebellis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 377-387 [Date published 31/12/1912] [379].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.469 ♂, Melbourne, VIC.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Moonbar, Jindabyne, Melbourne, Healesville and Woodend.

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 136-146 [Date published 31/12/1914] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

History of changes

• Paracolletes subfuscus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Descriptions and records of bees. VII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 23-29 [Date published 31/12/1906] [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.421 ♂, Adelaide, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

History of changes

• Paracolletes submacrodontus Rayment, T. 1934. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. VIII. Apoidea. With description of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 201-212 [Date published 31/12/1934] [206].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 33–528 ♂, Rottnest Is., WA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities White Swamp and Rottnest Is.

IBRA

NSW, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General References

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. (description of female as new species)

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] (redescription, as Stenotritus submacrodontus (Rayment, 1934))

History of changes