Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) punctatum (Smith, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus punctatus Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Champion Bay (Geraldton), WA.
• Halictus punctatus exlautus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 292-301 [Date published 31/12/1905] [300].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.975 ♀, Australia.
• Halictus hedleyi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] [231].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 2248 ♂, Port Phillip (as Port Philip), VIC.
• Halictus pallidifrons 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. [692].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Ringwood, VIC.
• Halictus subpallidifrons 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. [693].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, 6 miles E Melbourne, VIC.
• Halictus phillipensis 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].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Sandringham, VIC (the locality data and the characters of the specimen in the ANIC labelled 'type' do not match those given in the original description, see Walker (1986: 153)).

  Type locality 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].

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] [152]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Males cluster at night, flower visiting record: marguerites, Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Coreopsis L. [Asteraceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Mesembryanthemum L. [Aizoaceae], Myoporum G.Forster [Myoporaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae], Syzygium Gaertner [Myrtaceae], 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)

Bernhardt, P. & Walker, K. 1984. Bee foraging on three sympatric species of Australian Acacia. International Journal of Entomology 26: 322-330 [Date published 31/12/1984] (flower record)

Bernhardt, P. & Walker, K. 1985. Insect foraging on Acacia retinodes var. retinodes in Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Entomology 27: 97-101 [Date published 31/12/1985] (flower record)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 377-387 [Date published 31/12/1912] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1933. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 7: 291-324 [Date published 31/12/1933] (taxonomy)

Michener, C.D. 1960. Notes on the biology and supposed parthenogenesis of halictine bees from the Australian region. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 33: 85-96 [Date published 31/12/1960] (biology, as Halictus punctulatus, incorrect subsequent)

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] (flower record)

Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] (illustration)

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