Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) asperithorax (Cockerell, 1910)

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• Halictus asperithorax Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 272-284 [Date published 31/12/1910] [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.917 ♀, Melbourne, VIC.
• Halictus excusus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. New Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 37-50 [Date published 31/12/1930] [42].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.984 ♂, Pyengana, TAS.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest communally in soil, flower visiting record: Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae] (records on Coreopsis L. [Asteraceae], Gazania Gaertner [Asteraceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Stylidium Willd. [Stylidiaceae], and Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae] were not repeated in Walker 1995).

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. CXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 18: 216-227 [Date published 31/12/1926] (flower record)

Michener, C.D. 1960. Notes on the biology and supposed parthenogenesis of halictine bees from the Australian region. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 33: 85-96 [Date published 31/12/1960] (biology)

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. (biology)

Rayment, T. 1947. Bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 64: 103-107 [Date published 31/12/1947] (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1948. Some bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 65: 201-202 [Date published 31/12/1948] (flower record)

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