Species Leioproctus (Leioproctus) nigrofulvus (Cockerell, 1914)

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• Paracolletes nigrofulvus 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] [137].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.479 ♂, Shoalhaven, NSW.
• Paracolletes franki Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees, chiefly Australian species, described or determined by Dr. H. Friese. American Museum Novitates 343: 1-20 [Date published 31/12/1929: publication date Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199–243 [211]] [5] [junior secondary homonym of Bicolletes franki Friese, 1908].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) frankiellus 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] [nom. nov. for Paracolletes franki Cockerell, 1929].

Introduction

Maynard (2013) describes nests and nesting of this bee, in the mounds of Coptotermes lacteus (Froggatt, 1898).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in termite mounds; flower visiting records (Maynard 2013): Fabaceae: Davesia, Dillwynia.

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. 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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