Species Euryglossa laevigatum (Smith, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stilpnosoma laevigatum 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] [16].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.112 ♀, QLD.
• Stilpnosoma turneri Friese, H. 1917. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910–1913. 13. Apidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(2): 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1917] [4] [junior primary homonym of Stilpnosoma turneri Baker, 1906].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♂ (described as ♀, see 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 [102]), Mackay (as Makay) and Colosseum, QLD and Adelaide, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [217]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mackay, Colosseum and Adelaide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: 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), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 292-301 [Date published 31/12/1905] (redescription)

Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] (description of male)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (illustration)

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)

 

History of changes

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