Species Leioproctus (Exleycolletes) tuberculatus (Cockerell, 1913)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracolletes tuberculatus 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] [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀, Cheltenham, VIC.
• Paracolletes fascialis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] [93].
• Paracolletes tuberculatus insularis 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] [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T4082 ♀, Stradbroke Is., QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [70] (for Paracolletes tuberculatus insularis and Paracolletes fascialis)

Generic Combinations

• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) fascialis (Cockerell, 1921). —
  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] [50]
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) insularis (Cockerell, 1913). —
  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] [51]
• Leioproctus (Exleycolletes) tuberculatus (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 [70]
• Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) tuberculatus (Cockerell, 1913).
• Leioproctus (Nodocolletes) tuberculatus (Cockerell, 1913). —
  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] [63]

Introduction

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

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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 gregariously in ground, flower visiting record: Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Muehlenbeckia Meissner [Polygonaceae], Leptospermum leavigatum [Myrtaceae].

General References

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)

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

Rayment, T. 1929. The plumed bees. Victorian Naturalist 46: 155-162 [Date published 31/12/1929] (illustration)

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. (biology)

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