Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) bicingulatum (Smith, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus bicingulatus Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [57].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀ (presumed lost, K. Walker 1995), Melbourne, VIC.
• Halictus festivus 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. [707].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, West Warburton, VIC.
• Halictus haematopus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Some Tasmanian bees. The Entomologist 47: 305-308 [Date published 31/12/1914] [307].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.989 ♂, Launceston, TAS.
• Halictus leai Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] [237].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.968 ♀, VIC.
• Halictus sanguinipes Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 504-522 [Date published 31/12/1914] [513].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 58177 ♂, Windsor, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Walker, K. 1995. Revision of the Australian native bee subgenus Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 55: 1-423 [Date published 31/12/95] [71]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern zone of the Bassian province, with a few records from north QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously in soil, some nests with more than one female, flower visiting records: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Baeckea L. [Myrtaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Eugenia L. [Myrtaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Kunzea Reichb. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Ligustrum L. [Oleaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae], Tristaniopsis Brongn. & Gris [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Cardale, J.C. & Turner, J.W. 1966. Nest structure and biology of Halictus leai Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 77: 93-97 [Date published 31/12/1966] [93] (biology, as leai)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1904. The halictine bees of the Australian region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 14: 208-213 [Date published 31/12/1904] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. New Australian bees, in the collection of the British Museum. The Entomologist 38: 270-273, 302-304 [Date published 31/12/1905] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] (variety)

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

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 504-522 [Date published 31/12/1914] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] (flower record)

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [40]

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] (taxonomy, flower records)

Rayment, T. 1954. Fungi and bees. Victorian Naturalist 70: 230-231 [Date published 31/12/1954] (as host, as leai)

Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38 (biology, as leai)

 

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