Species Hylaeus (Heterapoides) halictiformis (Perkins, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heterapis halictiformis Perkins, R.C.L. 1912. Notes, with descriptions of new species, on aculeate Hymenoptera of the Australian Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 96-121 [Date published 31/12/1912] [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2826 ♂, Bundaberg, QLD.
• Prosopis pulchripes Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Australian bees of the family Prosopididae. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 2: 97-101 [Date published 31/12/1914] [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/4150 ♂, Brisbane, QLD.
• Heterapis hackeriella Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] [322].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/3729 ♀, Brisbane, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houston, T.F. 1975. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). I. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 36: 1-135 [Date published 31/12/1975] [37]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Alphitonia Reisseck ex Endl. [Rhamnaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Calytrix Lab. [Myrtaceae], Claoxylon A. Juss. [Euphorbiaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Lomatia R.Br. [Proteaceae], Loranthus Jacq. [Loranthaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

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 Heterapoides hackeriella (Cockerell, 1929))

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