Species Hylaeus (Euprosopoides) lubbocki (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Prosopis lubbocki Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 392-403 [Date published 31/12/1905] [403].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (not found by J.C.C. in 1988), Australia
  Comment: name proposed for specimen described as male of Prosopis metallica Smith, 1862.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australia, exact locality unknown.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

General 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] (taxonomic position doubtful)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) lubbocki Cockerell, 1905)

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. (doubtful record, cocoon)

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