Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) flindersi (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Halictus flindersi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. New Australian bees, in the collection of the British Museum. The Entomologist 38: 270-273, 302-304 [Date published 31/12/1905] [271].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.942 ♀, Seaforth, 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] [138]; Cardale, J.C. in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds) 1993. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 10 x, 406 pp. [173] (interprets Walker's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Halictus hilli Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929] [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♂, Darwin, NT.

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] [138]

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), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Dysophylla Blume [Lamiaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Hibiscus L. [Malvaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Parinari Aublet [Chrysobalanaceae], Pongamia Vent. [Fabaceae], Tournefortia L. [Boraginaceae].

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)

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