Subspecies Hylaeus (Euprosopoides) ruficeps ruficeps (Smith, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis ruficeps 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] [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.60 ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Prosopis fulvicornis 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] [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (described as ♀), Adelaide, SA.
• Prosopis purpurata 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] [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.53 ♂, Adelaide, SA.
• Prosopis cassiae 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:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ (number of specimens unknown, a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.44), 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] [46]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Brachychiton Schott & Endl. [Sterculiaceae], ?Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae],Dendrobium Sw. [Orchidaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eugenia L. [Myrtaceae], Grevillea R.Br. ex J. Knight [Proteaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Bartareau, T. 1995. Pollination and breeding systems in varieties of Dendrobium canaliculatum and their implications on the taxonomic status of the group. Orchadian 11(8): 381-387 [Date published June] [384] (pollinator)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) ruficeps (Smith, 1853), Hylaeus (Koptogaster) fulvicornis (Smith, 1853), Hyleaus (Koptogaster) pupurata (Smith, 1879) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) cassiae (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)

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