Species Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) incanescens (Cockerell, 1913)

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• Paracolletes incanescens Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. L. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 273-283 [Date published 31/12/1913] [277].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM Hy/4084 ♀, Stradbroke Is., QLD.
• Paracolletes punctiventris 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]] [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.
• Cladocerapis persooniae 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] [102].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Jamberoo, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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]; Cardale, J.C. in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds) 1993. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 10 x, 406 pp. [41] (interprets Maynard's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

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] [7]

Introduction

Maynard (2013) describes nests and nesting of this bee.

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, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously in ground, flower visiting record: Claoxylon A. Juss. [Euphorbiaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Lomatia R.Br. [Proteaceae], 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)

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

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] (biology)

Rayment, T. 1954. Remarkable bees from a rain forest. The Australian Zoologist 12: 46-56 [Date published 31/12/1954] (biology, as Cladocerapis persooniae Rayment, 1950)

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