Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) bremerense (Rayment, 1931)

Museums

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• Halictus bremerensis 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] [171].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 16–63 ♀, Bremer Bay, WA.
• Halictus (Chloralictus) formosus Rayment, T. 1930. Notes on a collection of bees from Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 16: 45-56 [Date published 31/12/1930] [52] [junior primary homonym of Halictus formosus Dours, 1872].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Albany, WA.
• Homalictus formosulus Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965] [180] [nom. nov. for Halictus formosus Rayment, 1930].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Walker, K.L. 1986. Revision of the Australian species of the genus Homalictus Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 47: 105-200 [Date published 31/12/1986] [125]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].

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)

Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38 (as host)

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