Species Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) raymenti Michener, 1965

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• Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) raymenti 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] [55] [nom. nov. for Cladocerapis plumosus Rayment, 1935].
• Cladocerapis plumosus 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. [688] [junior secondary homonym of Lamprocolletes plumosus Smith, 1853].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Monbulk, VIC.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), 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 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)

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, distribution)

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