Species Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopoides) bituberculatus (Smith, 1879)

Museums

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• Prosopis bituberculata 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] [18].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.115 ♂, Bakewell, Melbourne, VIC.
• Hylaeus bituberculatus tasmanicus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. CXI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 17: 657-665 [Date published 31/12/1926] [664].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.116 ♂, Launceston, TAS.
• Gnathoprosopis aureopicta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] [315].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/3725 ♀, Blackheath, presumably NSW.

  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] [68].
• Gnathoprosopis nigritarsus Rayment, T. 1929. Bees from East Gippsland. Victorian Naturalist 46: 124-129 [Date published 31/12/1929] [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T3849 ♀, Cann River, Gippsland, VIC.
• Gnathoprosopis nigritarsus maculata Rayment, T. 1929. Bees from East Gippsland. Victorian Naturalist 46: 124-129 [Date published 31/12/1929] [125].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, VIC.
• Gnathoprosopis borchii 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. [644].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Kiata, VIC.
• Gnathoprosopis millariella Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] [7].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Gorae West, VIC.

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] [67]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: blackberry, Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Hacker, H. 1921. Catalogue of Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 99-163 [Date published 31/12/1921] (as Gnathoprosopis bituberculata (Smith, 1879))

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [506]

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [381] (flower records)

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] [236] (flower record, as Hylaeus aureopictus (Cockerell 1929))

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. (flower record, as Gnathoprosopis nigritarsis Rayment, 1929)

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