Species Euryglossina (Euryglossina) proctotrypoides Cockerell, 1913

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• Euryglossina proctotrypoides Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. LI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 387-394 [Date published 31/12/1913] [392].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Croydon, VIC.
• Euryglossa minuta 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. [636].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (Exley, E.M. 1968. Revision of the genus Euryglossina Cockerell (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 915–1020 [937], states holotype is a ♂ not a ♀ as published), Sandringham, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Exley, E.M. 1968. Revision of the genus Euryglossina Cockerell (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 915-1020 [Date published 31/12/1968] [437]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced into, and established in New Zealand by 1979.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in beetle burrows in wood, flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Callan, E.McC. 1979. The Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) of New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 7: 30-41 [Date published 31/12/1979] (N.Z. record)

Donovan, B.J. 1980. Interactions between native and introduced bees in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 3: 104-116 [Date published 31/12/1980] (biology)

 

History of changes

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