Species Leioproctus (Leioproctus) nasutus Houston, 1990

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• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) nasutus Houston, T.F. 1990. Descriptions of new paracolletine bees associated with flowers of Eremophila (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 14: 583-621 [Date published 31/12/1990] [612].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 89/345 ♂, Meleya Well, Thundelarra Station, WA [28°58'S, 117°12'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record (Maynard 2013): Eremophila longifolia, Eremophila gilesii, Eremophila scoparia, Eremophila drummondii, Eremophila patonii [Scrophulariaceae], Scaevola spinescens [Goodeniaceae].

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. 1997. Revision of Leioproctus (Anacolletes) Michener and description of a new subgenus Leioproctus (Odontocolletes) (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 36(2): 137-148 [147] (spurs)

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

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