Species Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) bipectinatus (Smith, 1857)

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• Lamprocolletes bipectinatus Smith, F. 1857. [Description of a most extraordinary aculeate hymenopterous insect recently received from Australia.]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London Proceedings ns 4: 31 [Date published 31/12/1857] [31] [senior objective synonym of Lamprocolletes cladocerus Smith, 1862].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.504 ♂, Australia, between Sydney and Moreton Bay (as Moreton).
• Lamprocolletes cladocerus Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new species of Australian Hymenoptera, and of a species of Formica from New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 53-62 [Date published 31/12/1862] [57] [junior objective synonym of Lamprocolletes bipectinatus Smith, 1857].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.504 ♂, Sydney, NSW.

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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in ground, flower visiting record: Persoonia Sm. [Proteaceae].

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)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 392-403 [Date published 31/12/1905] [393] (taxonomy)

Maynard, G.V. 1992. Revision of Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 1-11 [Date published 31/12/1992] (redescription)

Michener, C.D. 1960. Notes on the behavior of Australian colletid bees. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 33: 22-31 [Date published 31/12/1960] (flower record)

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. (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1950. New bees and wasps—Part XIV. Three new bees in the genus Cladocerapis, and their role in the pollination of several Persoonia species ("Geebungs"). Victorian Naturalist 67: 101-111 [Date published 31/12/1950] (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1957. Closer than a brother. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955–56: 87-90 [Date published 31/12/1957] (illustration)

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