Species Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopoides) philoleucus (Cockerell, 1910)

Museums

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• Prosopis philoleuca Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXXI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 160-168 [Date published 31/12/1910] [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.79 ♀, Mackay, QLD.
• Prosopis eburniella Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 139-149 [Date published 31/12/1912] [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, Sydney, NSW.

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] [71]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae].

General References

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

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] [237] (flower record, as Hylaeus (Gnathoprosopoides) eburniellus (Cockerell, 1912))

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