Species Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) carinatifrons (Cockerell, 1929)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracolletes carinatifrons Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] [209].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K49023 ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Cladocerapis colmani 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] [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Narrabeen, NSW.
• Cladocerapis goraeensis Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Gorae West, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [4]

Introduction

Maynard (2013) notes Rayment's (1950) description of nests and nesting of this bee.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously 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 [788] (flower record)

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [28] (biology, nest)

Maynard, G.V. 2013. Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa. Zootaxa 3715(1): 1-114

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]

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