Subgenus Leioproctus (Colletellus) Michener, 1965

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• Colletellus 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] [70] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Leioproctus Smith, 1853].

  Type species:

   Andrenopsis velutinus Cockerell, 1929 by original designation (not Paracolletes velutinus Cockerell, 1929, homonym in Leioproctus).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC) ; SA, WA: Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Nullarbor (NUL), Stony Plains (STP) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Mellivore, volant.

General References

Leijs, R., Dorey, J. & Hogendoorn, K. 2018. Twenty six new species of Leioproctus (Colletellus): Australian Neopasiphaeinae, all but one with two submarginal cells (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, Leioproctus). ZooKeys 811: 109-168 [116]

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