Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) niveifrons (Cockerell, 1914)

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• Halictus niveifrons 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] [520].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, TAS.

  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] [150].
• Halictus oxoniellus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LXIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 14: 361-369 [Date published 31/12/1914] [369].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy2472 ♀, Bribie Is., QLD.
• Halictus mesocyaneus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [264].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2684 ♀, Bribie Is., QLD.
• Halictus raymenti Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. New halictine bees from Australia. The Entomologist 59: 246-247 [Date published 31/12/1926] [247].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Sandringham, VIC.
• Halictus tarltoni Cockerell, T.D.A. 1927. Some Australian bees. The Entomologist 60: 101-102 [Date published 31/12/1927] [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Brighton, VIC.
• Halictus aureoazureus 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. [697].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, VIC.
• Halictus littoralis 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. [700] [junior primary homonym of Halictus littoralis Blüthgen, 1923].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, VIC.

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] [150]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously in soil, flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Carpobrotus N.E. Br. [Aizoaceae], Correa Andrews [Rutaceae], Epacris Cav. [Epacridaceae], , Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Lobelia L. [Campanulaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Mesembryanthemum L. [Aizoaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae], Osteospermum L. [Chenopodiaceae], Pomaderris Labill. [Rhamnaceae], Salpichroa Miers [Solanaceae], Sprengelia Sm. [Epacridaceae], Tetragonia L. [Aizoaceae], Tetratheca Sm. [Tremandraceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae].

General References

Bernhardt, P. 1987. A comparison of the diversity, density, and foraging behavior of bees and wasps on Australian Acacia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 74: 42-50 [Date published 31/12/1987] (flower record, as Homalictus oxoniellus (Cockerell, 1914))

Bernhardt, P., Kenrick, J. & Knox, R.B. 1984. Pollination biology and the breeding system of Acacia retinodes (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 71: 17-29 [Date published 31/12/1984] (flower records, as Homalictus oxoniellus (Cockerell, 1914))

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [506]

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [382] (flower record)

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] [241] (flower record, as Homalictus oxoniellus (Cockerell, 1914))

Rayment, T. 1931. The furrow-bees and a fly. Victorian Naturalist 47: 184-191 [Date published 31/12/1931] (biology, as Halictus raymenti Cockerell, 1926)

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. (biology, illustration, as Halictus raymenti Cockerell, 1926, Halictus tarltoni Cockerell, 1927)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (taxonomy)

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