Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) mesembryanthemi (Cockerell, 1926)

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• Halictus mesembryanthemi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. New halictine bees from Australia. The Entomologist 59: 246-247 [Date published 31/12/1926] [246].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 55511 ♀, Port Phillip, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bassian province.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest communally in soil, males cluster, flower visiting records: Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Brachyscome Cass. [Asteraceae], Carpobrotus N.E. Br. [Aizoaceae], Disphyma N.E.Br. [Aizoaceae], Mesembryanthemum L. [Aizoaceae], Taraxacum G.Weber [Asteraceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Australian bees in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche (Cambridge) 37: 141-154 [Date published 31/12/1930] (distribution)

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. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (flower record)

 

History of changes

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