Subgenus Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) Smith, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamprocolletes Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [10].

  Type species:

   Andrena chalybeata Erichson, 1851 by subsequent designation, see Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31: 309-364 [Date published 31/12/1905] [345].
• Nodocolletes Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] [164].

  Type species:

   Nodocolletes dentatus Rayment, 1931 by original designation (= Andrena chalybeata Erichson, 1851).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [149]

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 South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Cobar Peneplain (CP), King (KIN), New England Tablelands (NET), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Mellivore, volant.

General References

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 [81]

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