Species Hylaeus (Euprosopoides) amatus (Cockerell, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis amata Cockerell, T.D.A. 1909. Descriptions and records of bees. XXIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 4: 393-404 [Date published 31/12/1909] [394].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.63 ♀, Kuranda, QLD.
• Prosopis cyaniventris Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [226].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 26876 ♀, Mackay, QLD.

 

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] [33]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Kuranda, Mackay, Cape York and Cairns district.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

 

General References

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) amatus (Cockerell, 1909))

 

History of changes

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