Species Leioproctus (Leioproctus) cupreus (Smith, 1853)

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) cupreus, dorsal view

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Leioproctus (Leioproctus) cupreus, lateral

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamprocolletes cupreus 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] [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.489 ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Paracolletes plumosellus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. VI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 477-486 [Date published 31/12/1905] [480].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.426 ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
• Paracolletes roseoviridis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. New Australian bees, in the collection of the British Museum. The Entomologist 38: 270-273, 302-304 [Date published 31/12/1905] [270].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.438 ♂, WA.
• Paracolletes nigroclypeatus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] [204].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.441 ♀, VIC.
• Paracolletes chalcurus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 81-98 [Date published 31/12/1921] [92].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2400 ♀, Cunderdin, WA.
• Paracolletes nigroclypeatus hardyi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T4088 ♀, Perth, WA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records (see Maynard 2013): Lamiaceae: Physopsis viscida; Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus spp., Eucalyptus conglobata, Eucalyptus gracilis, Eucalytpus leptopoda, Eucalyptus oleosa, Malleostemon tuberculatus, Melaleuca lanceolata

General References

Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] (description of male)

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. 2013. Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa. Zootaxa 3715(1): 1-114

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (distribution)

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