Species Leioproctus (Cladocerapis) speculiferus (Cockerell, 1921)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracolletes speculiferus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] [95].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2405 ♂, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
• Cladocerapis heronii 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].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Dorrigo, NSW.
• Cladocerapis woyensis 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. [689].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Woy Woy, NSW.
• Cladocerapis hackeri 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] [junior secondary homonym of Paracolletes hackeri Cockerell, 1918; not renamed].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Bribie Is., QLD.

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] [10]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), 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 [788] (flower record)

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [505]

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [381]

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)

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