Species Hyphesma atromicans (Cockerell, 1913)

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• Pachyprosopis atromicans Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♀, Purnong, Murray River, SA.
• Pachyprosopis barbata Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Australian bees of the family Prosopididae. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 2: 97-101 [Date published 31/12/1914] [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, Brisbane, QLD.
• Euryglossa oleariae 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. [640].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (described as ♀), Sandringham, VIC.
• Euryglossa elthamensis 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. [643].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Eltham, VIC.
• Pachyprosopis celmisiae Rayment, T. 1949. New bees and wasps—Part X. Victorian Naturalist 65: 271-272 [Date published 31/12/1949] [271].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Shore of Lake Catani, Mt Buffalo, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Exley, E.M. 1975. Revision of the genus Hyphesma Michener (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 23: 277-291 [Date published 31/12/1975] [281]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil, flower visiting record: Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Celmisia Cass. [Asteraceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cane, J.H. 1979. The hind tibiotarsal and tibial spur articulations in bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 52: 123-137 [Date published 31/12/1979] (hind spur)

Exley, E.M. 1975. Revision of the genus Hyphesma Michener (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 23: 277-291 [Date published 31/12/1975] (biology)

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [506]

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [381]

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