Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) veronicae (Cockerell, 1926)

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• Halictus (Chloralictus) veronicae Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. CXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 18: 216-227 [Date published 31/12/1926] [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Sandringham, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern region of Eyrean province and the Bassian region (VIC and south-western WA only).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Amyema Tieghem [Loranthaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Cakile Miller [Brassicaceae], Carpobrotus N.E. Br. [Aizoaceae], Disphyma N.E.Br. [Aizoaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Hakea Schrader [Proteaceae], Lysiana Tieghem [Loranthaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Muehlenbeckia Meissner [Polygonaceae], Nitraria L. [Zygophyllaceae], Salsola L. [Chenopodiaceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae].

 

General References

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. (illustration)

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] [234] (redescription, distribution, flower records)

 

History of changes

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