Species Hylaeus (Planihylaeus) trilobatus (Cockerell, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis trilobata Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Some Australian bees in the Berlin Museum. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 18: 98-114 [Date published 31/12/1910] [104].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂, Mallee, VIC.
• Prosopis melanops Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. A collection of bees from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 5: 197-204 [Date published 31/12/1916] [198].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Caloundra, QLD.
• Prosopis centralis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [226].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♂, Dandenong Ranges, VIC.
• Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) melanops crassior Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. CX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 17: 510-519 [Date published 31/12/1926] [514].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T3676 ♀, Bayswater, 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] [108]

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), 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), Flinders (FLI), 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), 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: Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Rubus L. [Rosaceae].

General References

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) trilobatus (Cockerell, 1910) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) melanops (Cockerell, 1916))

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 (Prosopisteron) melanops (Cockerell, 1916))

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