Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) victoriae (Cockerell, 1926)

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

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, Port Phillip, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Leongatha and Sandringham; species not recollected at type locality during several attempts in 1980s, possibly extinct.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil, flower visiting record: marigolds, Achillea L. [Asteraceae], Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Mesembryanthemum L. [Aizoaceae], Myoporum G.Forster [Myoporaceae], 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] (flower record)

Rayment, T. 1934. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. VIII. Apoidea. With description of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 201-212 [Date published 31/12/1934] (description of male, doubtful record, from Rottnest Is.)

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)

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

 

History of changes

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