Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) platycephalum (Rayment, 1927)
- Halictus mesembryanthemiellus 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. [699].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, VIC. - Halictus micridoneus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. New Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 37-50 [Date published 31/12/1930] [43].
Type data:
Holotype QM Hy4039 ♂, Brisbane, QLD. - Halictus platycephalus Rayment, T. 1927. A new Halictine bee. Halictus platycephalus, sp.n. Victorian Naturalist 44: 101-102 [Date published 31/12/1927] [101].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, Port Phillip, VIC. - Halictus intermedia Rayment, T. 1927. A new Halictine bee. Halictus platycephalus, sp.n. Victorian Naturalist 44: 101-102 [Date published 31/12/1927] [101] [junior primary homonym of Halictus intermedius Schenk, 1870; name introduced and used only as caption to figure].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (no specimens known; species recognised from published figures), Port Phillip, 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] [199]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Bassian province, mainly in coastal areas.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest gregariously and communally in soil, flower visiting records: chrysanthemum, marguerites, Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Kunzea Reichb. [Myrtaceae], Lobelia L. [Campanulaceae], Mesembryanthemum L. [Aizoaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae].
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1933. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 7: 291-324 [Date published 31/12/1933] (taxonomy)
Knerer, G. 1980. Evolution of halictine castes. Naturwissenschaften 67: 133-135 [Date published 31/12/1980] (biology, as mesembryanthemiellum)
Knerer, G. & Schwarz, M. 1978. Beobachtungen an australischen Furchenbienen (Hymenopteren; Halictinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 200: 321-333 [Date published 31/12/1978] (biology, as mesembryanthemiellum)
Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (as mesembryanthemiellum)
History of changes
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