Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) ctenander Michener, 1965

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• Homalictus ctenander 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] [318].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, Kerang, VIC.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Amyema Tieghem [Loranthaceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Brachychiton Schott & Endl. [Sterculiaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Malus Miller [Rosaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Pittosporum Gaertner [Pittosporaceae], Strelitzia Banks ex Dryander [Strelitziaceae].

General References

Michener, C.D. 1978. The parasitic groups of Halictidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 51: 291-339 [Date published 31/12/1978] (taxonomy)

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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