Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) vitripenne (Smith, 1879)

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Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) vitripenne (Smith, 1879)

Halictus doweri 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. [694].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Cheltenham, Port Phillip, VIC.
Halictus glauerti Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] [170].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Perth, WA.
Halictus ornatus 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. [691].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Sandringham, VIC.
Halictus (Chloralictus) purnongensis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. LI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 387-394 [Date published 31/12/1913] [393].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 58174 ♂, Purnong, SA.
Halictus doweri purpureus 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. [695].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC ♀, Malvern, E of Melbourne, VIC
Comment: number of specimens unknown-a specimen in ANIC is labelled syntype.
Halictus vitripennis Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [34].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.973 ♀, Champion Bay (Geraldton), WA.
Halictus sphecodoides mackayensis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [236].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ♀ (number of specimens unknown; presumed to be in AMNH but not found), Mackay, QLD.
Halictus whiteleyi Rayment, T. 1939. Bees from the high lands of New South Wales and Victoria. The Australian Zoologist 9: 263-294 [Date published 31/12/1939] [281].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀, Mt Canobolas, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [13]
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] [239]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Throughout most of southern Australia (not TAS) with some records from NT and northern WA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), 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), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Alphitonia Reisseck ex Endl. [Rhamnaceae], Amyema Tieghem [Loranthaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Baeckea L. [Myrtaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Chrysanthemum L. [Asteraceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Gastrolobium R.Br. [Fabaceae], Grevillea R.Br. ex J. Knight [Proteaceae], Hakea Schrader [Proteaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Micromyrtus Benth. [Myrtaceae], Nitraria L. [Zygophyllaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae], Ptilotus R.Br. [Amaranthaceae], Stemodia L. [Scrophulariaceae], Taraxacum G.Weber [Asteraceae], Trachymene Rudge [Apiaceae], Velleia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].