Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) sphecodoides (Smith, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus sphecodoides Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, TAS (as Van Diemens Land on label, as New Holland in description).
• Halictus limatus Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [59].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, TAS (as Van Diemens Land).
• Halictus humilis 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 burkei Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. New Australian bees in the collection of the British Museum. II. The Entomologist 39: 56-60 [Date published 31/12/1906] [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.950 ♀, Hobart, TAS.
• Halictus demissus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Some bees from Australia, Tasmania and the New Hebrides. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 68: 360-375 [Date published 31/12/1916] [371].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 2♀, Launceston, TAS.
• Halictus limatiformis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [263].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy2683 ♀, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
• Halictus humiliformis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [263].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2686 ♀, Ebor, NSW.

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] [156]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest communally and gregariously in soil, flower visiting record: aster, daisy, Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae], Brachyscome Cass. [Asteraceae], Brassica L. [Brassicaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Cotoneaster Medikus [Rosaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Gastrolobium R.Br. [Fabaceae], Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Helichrysum Miller s.lat. [Asteraceae], Helipterum DC. s.lat. [Asteraceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Ixodia R.Br. [Asteraceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Lagunaria (DC.) Reichb. [Malvaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Schinus L. [Anacardiaceae], Taraxacum G.Weber [Asteraceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].

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 demissus (Cockerell, 1916))

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] (as Homalictus demissus (Cockerell, 1916))

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]

Knerer, G. & Schwarz, M. 1976. Halictine social evolution: the Australian enigma. Science (Washington, D.C.) 194: 445-448 [Date published 31/12/1976] (biology, as Homalictus demissus (Cockerell, 1916))

Knerer, G. & Schwarz, M. 1978. Beobachtungen an australischen Furchenbienen (Hymenopteren; Halictinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 200: 321-333 [Date published 31/12/1978] (biology, as Homalictus demissus (Cockerell, 1916))

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 demissus Cockerell, 1916, Halictus limatiformis Cockerell, 1922)

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, as Homalictus limatiformis (Cockerell, 1922))

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, as Halictus demissus Cockerell, 1916)

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (biology, as Halictus demissus Cockerell, 1916)

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