Species Hylaeus (Euprosopis) violaceus (Smith, 1853)

Museums

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• Prosopis violacea 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] [26].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.55 ♀, Swan River, WA.

  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] [31]; 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. [121] (interprets Houston's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Prosopis cognata 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] [18].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH Hym.17.a.54a,b 1♀ 1♂, Champion Bay (Geraldton) and Swan River, WA.
• Hylaeus gosfordensis 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] [266].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Gosford, NSW.

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] [31]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Males patrolled flowering Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae] shrubs; flower visiting records: Aster L. [Asteraceae], Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Alcock, J. & Houston, T.F. 1996. Mating systems and male size in Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Ethology 102(7): 591-610 [Date published July] [599] (biology)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) violaceus (Smith, 1853), Prosopis cognata Smith, 1879 is synonymised)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (flower record)

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