Species Euryglossina (Euryglossina) xanthogena (Rayment, 1935)

Museums

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• Turnerella xanthogena 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. [667].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (not located in T. Rayment coll. transferred to ANIC), Sandringham, VIC.
• Euryglossella bicolor 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. [663] [junior secondary homonym of Euryglossina bicolor Rayment, 1928].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T–1404 ♀, Melbourne, 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] [985]

Generic Combinations

• Euryglossina (Euryglossina) xanthogena (Rayment, 1935).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults found in beetle-infested timber, flower visiting record: fennel, shirley poppies, Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eugenia L. [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Pongamia Vent. [Fabaceae].

General References

Exley, E.M. 1968. Revision of the genus Euryglossina Cockerell (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 915-1020 [Date published 31/12/1968] [1009] (description of male as 'sp N')

Exley, E.M. 1996. A note on the identity of male Euryglossina (Turnerella) bicolor (Rayment) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Euryglossinae). Australian Entomologist 23(4): 139 [Date published December] [139] (male (as bicolor), identified as 'sp N' of Exley, 1968)

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