Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) sculpturatum (Cockerell, 1930)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus omnivagus 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. [705].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC ♀, Kiata, Grampians and Carrum, VIC; NMV 2♀, Kiata, Grampians and Carrum, VIC.
• Halictus sculpturatus 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 Hy4037 ♂, Stradbroke Is., QLD.

 

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] [210]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Bassian province.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Aotus Smith [Fabaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Baeckea L. [Myrtaceae], Bossiaea Vent. [Fabaceae], Callistachys Vent. [Fabaceae], Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Gastrolobium R.Br. [Fabaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Kunzea Reichb. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Myoporum G.Forster [Myoporaceae], Phyllota (DC.) Benth. [Fabaceae], Platylobium Sm. [Fabaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Senecio L. [Asteraceae], Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae], Thelymitra Forster & G.Forster [Orchidaceae], Verticordia DC. [Myrtaceae], Viminaria Smith [Fabaceae].

 

General References

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [507]

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [383] (flower record)

 

History of changes

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