Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) murrayi (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Halictus murrayi 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] [272].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Adelaide River, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, 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), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), 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: Anigozanthos Lab. [Haemodoraceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Borreria G. Meyer [Rubiaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Eremophila R.Br. [Myoporaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Terminalia L. [Combretaceae], Tristaniopsis Brongn. & Gris [Myrtaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Australian bees in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche (Cambridge) 37: 141-154 [Date published 31/12/1930] (redescription)

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] [148] (redescription)

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