Species Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) leichardti (Cockerell, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Halictus leichardti 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] [59].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.965 ♀, Mackay, QLD.
• Halictus paracolletinus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] [201].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♀ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.966), Mackay, QLD.
• Halictus scutellatus Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [242] [in part].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♀, Mackay, QLD
  Comment: ♀ syntype is conspecific with Halictus leichardti Cockerell, 1906; ♂ syntype is conspecific with Halictus forresti Cockerell, 1906.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 484-494 [Date published 31/12/1912] [486]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [12]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Erigeron L. [Asteraceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

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] (description of male, as Halictus paracolletinus Cockerell, 1910)

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. 1954. Remarkable bees from a rain forest. The Australian Zoologist 12: 46-56 [Date published 31/12/1954] (distribution)

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