Species Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) seductum (Cockerell, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus seductus nudus 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. [706].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sorrento, Port Phillip, VIC.
• Halictus seductus 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] [512].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.972 ♀, Windsor, VIC.

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] [212]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil, flower visiting record: marguerites, rosemary, tree lucerne, Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Carpobrotus N.E. Br. [Aizoaceae], Conospermum Sm. [Proteaceae], Euphrasia L. [Scrophulariaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Myoporum G.Forster [Myoporaceae], Pultenaea Sm. [Fabaceae], Veronica L. [Scrophulariaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

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

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 [507]

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [383] (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] [177] (generic placement, nom. nud. as species)

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)

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