Species Leioproctus (Exleycolletes) leai (Cockerell, 1913)

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• Paracolletes leai Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. A small collection of bees from Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37: 596-599 [Date published 31/12/1913] [597].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Ulverstone, TAS.
• Paracolletes humerosus cyanurus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 136-146 [Date published 31/12/1914] [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.522 ♀, Oakley (probably Oakleigh), VIC.
• Paracolletes simillimus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Descriptions and records of bees. LXXIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 18: 44-53 [Date published 31/12/1916] [48] [junior secondary homonym of Euryglossa simillimus Smith, 1879].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.464), Yallingup, WA.
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) simulator 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] [52] [nom. nov. for Paracolletes simillimus Cockerell, 1916].

Generic Combinations

• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) leai (Cockerell, 1913).
• Leioproctus (Exleycolletes) leai (Cockerell, 1913). —
  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 [75]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: 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 Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records: Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus; Brassicaceae: Brassica; Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus, Melaleuca; Pittosporaceae: Bursaria spinosa.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. LIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 12: 368-376 [Date published 31/12/1913] (redescription)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 136-146 [Date published 31/12/1914] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] (distribution)

Maynard, G.V. 1992. Systematic Studies on Australian Leioproctus Smith (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Unpubl. PhD Thesis. Brisbane : Univ. of Queensland. 429 pp. (distribution)

Rayment, T. 1947. Bees from the Victorian Alps. Victorian Naturalist 64: 103-107 [Date published 31/12/1947] (taxonomy)

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