Species Hylaeus (Euprosopis) elegans (Smith, 1853)

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• Prosopis elegans 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] [28].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.188 ♀, Adelaide, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Houston, T.F. 1981. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). II. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 80: 1-128 [Date published 31/12/1981] [22]; Cardale, J.C. in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds) 1993. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 10 x, 406 pp.
• Prosopis sydneyana Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 465-477 [Date published 31/12/1905] [467].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.173 ♂, Sydney, NSW.
• Prosopis elegans huseloides Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 5: 496-506 [Date published 31/12/1910] [498].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH Hym.17.a.189 2♀, Townsville, QLD.
• Prosopis rollei 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] [105].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 2♂, Ararat, VIC.
• Euprosopis nodosicornis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.191 ♂, Australia.
• Hylaeus rubripes Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [226].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♂ (number of specimens unknown), Ararat, VIC.
• Prosopis flaviceps Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [227].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♂ ♀, Ararat, VIC and Roebourne, WA.
• Euprosopis elegans hillii Rayment, T. 1930. Notes on a collection of bees from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 16: 45-56 [Date published 31/12/1930] [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Horseshoe Bend, Finke River, NT.
• Euprosopis elegans maculata Rayment, T. 1930. Notes on a collection of bees from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 16: 45-56 [Date published 31/12/1930] [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, VIC.
• Euprosopis elegans occidentalis Rayment, T. 1930. Notes on a collection of bees from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 16: 45-56 [Date published 31/12/1930] [47].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Hampton, VIC.
• Euprosopis elegans labiata Rayment, T. 1930. Notes on a collection of bees from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 16: 45-56 [Date published 31/12/1930] [47].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Mt Yule, Healesville, VIC.
• Euprosopis elegans smithii Rayment, T. 1930. Notes on a collection of bees from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 16: 45-56 [Date published 31/12/1930] [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Adelaide, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houston, T.F. 1981. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). II. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 80: 1-128 [Date published 31/12/1981] [22]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in any suitable cavity in posts, plant-tubes, or the abandoned gallery of other bees or a longicorn beetle, flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Calytrix Lab. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eucarya T. Mitch. [Santalaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [34]

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Euprosopis) elegans (Smith, 1853), Hylaeus (Euprosopis) nodosicornis (Cockerell, 1913) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) rollei (Cockerell, 1910))

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)

Michener, C.D. 1992. Sexual dimorphism in the glossa of Colletidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 65: 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1992] (glossa)

Michener, C.D. & Houston, T.F. 1991. Apoidea. pp. 993-1000 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137. (illustration)

Myers, J.G. 1935. Ethological observations on the citrus bee, Trigona silvestriana Vachal, and other Neotropical bees (Hym., Apoidea). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 83: 131-142 [Date published 31/12/1935] (biology, as Prosopis rollei Cockerell, 1910)

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, illustration, as Euprosopis elegans (Smith, 1853))

Williams, G.A. & Adam, P. 1997. The composition of the bee (Apoidea: Hymenoptera) fauna visiting flowering trees in New South Wales lowland subtropical rainforest remnants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 118: 69-95 (distribution)

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