Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) orbatum (Smith, 1853)

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Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) orbatum (Smith, 1853)

Halictus orbatus 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 ♀ (not located; should be in BMNH), TAS (as Van Diemens Land).
Halictus viridarii Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. New Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 37-50 [Date published 31/12/1930] [42].
Type data:
Holotype QM Hy4038 ♂, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
Halictus franki Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [241].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AMNH ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Fremantle (as Freemantle), WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Walker, K. 1995. Revision of the Australian native bee subgenus Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 55: 1-423 [Date published 31/12/95] [193]
Walker, K.L. 2022. Taxonomic revision of the Australian native bee subgenus Australictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini: genus Lasioglossum) – “Wood-Splitting Axe Bees”. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 81: 135–162 [Date published 16 December 2022] [160]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern zone of the Bassian region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: fruit blossom, Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Aotus Smith [Fabaceae], Bossiaea Vent. [Fabaceae], Bursaria Cav. [Pittosporaceae], Comesperma Labill. [Polygalaceae], Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Dillwynia Sm. [Fabaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Helipterum DC. s.lat. [Asteraceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Medicago L. [Fabaceae], Olearia Moench [Asteraceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Senecio L. [Asteraceae], Swainsona Salisb. [Fabaceae], Tetratheca Sm. [Tremandraceae], Trifolium L. [Fabaceae], Verbena L. [Verbenaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae], Watsonia Miller [Iridaceae].