Species Lasioglossum (Homalictus) urbanum (Smith, 1879)
- Halictus urbanus 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] [35].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Champion Bay (Geraldton), WA.Subsequent designation 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] [17]. - Halictus urbanus baudinensis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 301-308 [Date published 31/12/1905] [307].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.906 ♀, Baudin Is., WA. - Halictus cretinicola Friese, H. 1909. Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 7: 179-288 [Date published 31/12/1909] [190].
Type data:
Lectotype NHMW ♀, Stephansort, Astrolabe Bay, Papua New Guinea.Subsequent designation 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] [17]. - Halictus kesteveni 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] [386].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Kuranda (as Cairns Kuranda), QLD. - Halictus hackeriellus 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] [507].
Type data:
Holotype QM Hy4118 ♂, Brisbane, QLD. - Halictus pavonellus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. LXVIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 16: 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1915] [5].
Type data:
Holotype USNM ♀, Bribie Is., QLD. - Halictus olivinus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] [262].
Type data:
Holotype QM T2685 ♂, Brisbane, QLD. - Halictus urbanus lomatiae 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 T2742 ♀, Sunnybank, Brisbane, QLD. - Halictus microchalceus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929] [13].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Thirroul, NSW. - Halictus subcarus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Australian bees in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche (Cambridge) 37: 141-154 [Date published 31/12/1930] [152].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ ♀, Halifax, QLD. - Halictus williamsi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Australian bees in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche (Cambridge) 37: 141-154 [Date published 31/12/1930] [153].
Type data:
Lectotype MCZ ♀, Halifax, 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] [162]; 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. [180] (interprets Walker's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)). - Halictus suburbanus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. New Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 37-50 [Date published 31/12/1930] [45].
Type data:
Holotype QM Hy4099 ♂, [Lamington] National Park, QLD. - Halictus aponi Cheesman, L.E. & Perkins, R.C.L. 1939. Halictine bees from the New Hebrides and Banks Islands (Hymen.). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 88: 161-171 [Date published 31/12/1939] [170].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Ounua, Malekula Is., New Hebrides. - Halictus aponi erromangana Cheesman, L.E. & Perkins, R.C.L. 1939. Halictine bees from the New Hebrides and Banks Islands (Hymen.). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 88: 161-171 [Date published 31/12/1939] [170].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Erromanga Is., New Hebrides.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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] [17]
- 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] [162]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Tenimbar, Loyalty Ils, "Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Lord Howe Is." Jennings & Austin 2015).
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, volant.
Larva: sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest gregariously and communally in soil, flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Alphitonia Reisseck ex Endl. [Rhamnaceae], Amyema Tieghem [Loranthaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Atalaya Blume [Sapindaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Brachychiton Schott & Endl. [Sterculiaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Calandrinia Kunth [Portulacaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Calothamnus Lab. [Myrtaceae], Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Frankenia L. [Frankeniaceae], Goodenia Sm. [Goodeniaceae], Hakea Schrader [Proteaceae], Helipterum DC. s.lat. [Asteraceae], Heterodendrum Desf. [Sapindaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Lomatia R.Br. [Proteaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Morgania R.Br. [Scrophulariaceae], Persoonia Sm. [Proteaceae], Pimelea Gaertner [Thymelaeaceae], Pittosporum Gaertner [Pittosporaceae], Scaevola L. [Goodeniaceae], Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae], Terminalia L. [Combretaceae], Trachymene Rudge [Apiaceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].
General References
Bernhardt, P. & Weston, P.H. 1996. The pollination ecology of Persoonia (Proteaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 6(4): 775-804 [789] (flower record)
Keighery, G.J. 1975. Parallel evolution of floral structures in Darwinia (Myrtaceae) and Pimelea (Thymeleaceae). Western Australian Naturalist 13: 46-50 [Date published 31/12/1975] (flower record)
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)
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 records, as Homalictus urbanus (Smith, 1879), Homalictus suburbanus (Cockerell, 1930))
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] (redescription)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 26-Jun-2023 | APIFORMES | 10-Mar-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Ken Walker (NMV) |
| 22-Oct-2015 | 18-Mar-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Aug-2012 | 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |