Species Leioproctus (Leioproctus) bicristatus (Cockerell, 1929)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracolletes bicristatus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] [307].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QM 2♀ (location of second female is unknown; a female specimen is labelled 'type' and has the registration number T4098), Tooloom, NSW.
• Paracolletes melanurus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. New Australian bees. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 37-50 [Date published 31/12/1930] [47] [junior secondary homonym of Pasiphae cyanea melanura Cockerell, 1917].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T4029 ♀, Tooloom, NSW.
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) melanoproctus 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] [nom. nov. for Paracolletes melanurus Cockerell, 1930].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously in sand, flower visiting records: Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Atalaya hemiglauca [Sapindaceae].

General References

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

Maynard, G.V. & Burwell, C.J. 1994. Notes on nests of Leioproctus cristatus (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Australian Entomologist 21(2): 61-63 [Date published July] [61] (biology)

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