Species Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) serotinellus (Cockerell, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopisteron serotinellum Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. Four interesting Australian bees, in the collection of the British Museum. The Entomologist 39: 15-18 [Date published 31/12/1906] [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.174 ♀, Mackay, QLD.
• Prosopis maculipennis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [224] [junior primary homonym of Prosopis maculipennis Smith, 1879].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Mackay and Kuranda, QLD.
• Prosopis vittipennis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [224] [nom. nov. for Prosopis maculipennis Friese, 1924].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mackay, Brisbane, Wallangarra and near Stanthorpe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: 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), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eugenia L. [Myrtaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 17-31 [Date published 31/12/1910] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1918. Some bees collected in Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 112-120 [Date published 31/12/1918] (description of male)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) serotinellus (Cockerell, 1906))

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)

 

History of changes

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