Species Hylaeus (Euprosopoides) cyanurus (W. Kirby, 1802)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melitta cyanura Kirby, W. 1802. Monographia Apum Angliae; or, an attempt to divide into their natural genera and families, such species of the Linnean genus Apis as have been discovered in England: with descriptions and observations. To which are prefixed some introductory remarks upon the class Hymenoptera, and a synoptical table of the nomenclature of the external parts of these insects. Ipswich : J. Raw Vol. 1 xxi 258 pp. [212].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, NSW (at the time of collection, this referred to the whole eastern coast of Australia).

  Type locality 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] [36].
• Prosopis pachygnatha Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 17-31 [Date published 31/12/1910] [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.61 ♀, Cooktown, 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] [36]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Cooktown, Jardine River, Mackay and Nourlangie Creek.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: (males only) Dysophylla Blume [Lamiaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Illiger, K. 1806. William Kirby's Familien der bienenartigen Insekten mit Zusätzen Nachweisungen und Bemerkungen. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 5: 28-175 [Date published 31/12/1806] (as Prosopis cyanura (Kirby, 1802))

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) cyanurus (Kirby, 1802)) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) pachygnathus (Cockerell, 1910))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Oct-2015		20-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)