Species Hylaeus (Rhodohylaeus) proximus (Smith, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis proxima Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.42 ♀, Geraldton (as Champion Bay), WA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Manning Valley, Purnong and Champion Bay.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] (variety)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) proximus (Smith, 1879))

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. (variety)

Williams, G.A. & Adam, P. 1997. The composition of the bee (Apoidea: Hymenoptera) fauna visiting flowering trees in New South Wales lowland subtropical rainforest remnants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 118: 69-95 [95] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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