Species Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopis) amiculiformis (Cockerell, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis amiculiformis 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.2828 ♀, near Mackay, QLD.
• Gnathoprosopis hackeri Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 484-494 [Date published 31/12/1912] [489].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/4145 ♂, Sunnybank, Brisbane, QLD.
• Gnathoprosopis simpliciventris Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [265].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/2438 ♂, Brisbane, 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] [55]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eugenia L. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

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] (description of male)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] (as Gnathoprosopis amiculiformis (Cockerell, 1909))

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

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, as Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopis) hackeri (Cockerell, 1912))

Williams, G.A. & Adam, P. 1997. The composition of the bee (Apoidea: Hymenoptera) fauna visiting flowering trees in New South Wales lowland subtropical rainforest remnants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 118: 69-95 [95] (distribution)

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