Species Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) aralis (Cockerell, 1916)

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• Prosopis aralis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Some bees from Australia, Tasmania and the New Hebrides. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 68: 360-375 [Date published 31/12/1916] [364].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.175), Mt Yule, Healesville, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Gosford—Wyong area, Mt Yule (Healesville), Gunbower and Portland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in galleries in dead eucalypt, (?nest in hole in mud-brick wall), flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae].

 

General References

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

Moore, K.M. 1959. Observations on some Australian forest insects. 4. Xyleborus truncatus Erichson 1842 (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) associated with dying Eucalyptus saligna Smith (Sydney blue-gum). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 84: 186-193 [Date published 31/12/1959] (nest)

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. (?nest, flower record)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (distribution)

 

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