Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) cassiaeflore (Cockerell, 1914)

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• Halictus cassiaefloris Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 504-522 [Date published 31/12/1914] [514].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.955 ♀, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [129].
• Halictus tenuis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [240] [junior primary homonym of Halictus tenuis Ellis, 1913].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH ♀, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [129].

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]] [12]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Securinega A.L.Juss. [Euphorbiaceae], Terminalia L. [Combretaceae], Tristaniopsis Brongn. & Gris [Myrtaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Pauly, A. 1986. Les abeilles de la sous-famille des Halictinae en Nouvelle-Guinée et dans l'Archipel Bismarck (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 227: 1-58 [Date published 31/12/1986] (distribution)

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] (redescription)

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