Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) convexum (Smith, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus bursariae Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. A collection of bees from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 5: 197-204 [Date published 31/12/1916] [203].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD.
• Halictus convexus 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] [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.902 ♀, VIC.
• Halictus euryurus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. New Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 37-50 [Date published 31/12/1930] [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy5002 ♂, Adaminaby, NSW.
• Halictus griseovittatus 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] [509].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 27763 ♀, Kelvin Grove, QLD.
• Halictus mjobergi Friese, H. 1917. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910–1913. 13. Apidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(2): 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1917] [5].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀ (not located by Walker, 1995), listed by Friese as Mt Tamburine (error for Tamborine), QLD, and Atherton, QLD. Specimen is labelled Adelaide, SA (label believed to be incorrect, species probably from QLD, see Cockerell (1929: 13)).

  Type locality references:

  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]] [13].

 

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] [106]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern zone of the Bassian province with a few north QLD localities.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Aotus Smith [Fabaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Cakile Miller [Brassicaceae], Cheiranthera Brongn. [Pittosporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Hakea Schrader [Proteaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Kunzea Reichb. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Oxalis L. [Oxalidaceae] Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae], Solanum L. [Solanaceae], Taraxacum G.Weber [Asteraceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

 

General References

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)

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, as griseovittatus)

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] (generic placement, flower records as griseovittatus)

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. (flower record)

 

History of changes

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