Species Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) xanthaspis (Cockerell, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis xanthaspis 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] [160].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 8♀ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.74), Mackay, QLD.
• Prosopis mackayensis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [225].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH 2♀, Mackay, QLD.
• Prosopis turneri Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [225].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, Mackay, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [18]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1911. Descriptions and records of bees. XL. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 763-770 [Date published 31/12/1911] (taxonomy)

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] (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) xanthaspis (Cockerell, 1910))

 

History of changes

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