Species Leioproctus (Leioproctus) spatulatus (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Paracolletes spatulatus Cockerell, 1905.
• Paracolletes providellus bacchalis 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] [138].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.428 ♂, Bacchus Marsh, VIC.
• Paracolletes subviridis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. LXIX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 16: 96-104 [Date published 31/12/1915] [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.418 ♀, Bridport, TAS.
• Paracolletes pallidicinctus Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Emu Hill, W of Gorae, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [57]

Generic Combinations

• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) bacchalis (Cockerell, 1914). —
  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]
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) pallidicinctus (Rayment, 1953). —
  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]
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) spatulatus (Cockerell, 1905). —
  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] [52]
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) subviridus (Cockerell, 1915). —
  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] [52]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records (Maynard 2013): garden ivy, Myrtaceae: Leptospermum, Eucalyptus, Melalueca; Pittosporaceae: Bursaria spinosa.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. LXVII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 529-537 [Date published 31/12/1915] (variety)

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

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] (taxonomy)

Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. (taxonomy)

Rayment, T. 1939. Bees from the high lands of New South Wales and Victoria. The Australian Zoologist 9: 263-294 [Date published 31/12/1939] (distribution)

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

Rayment, T. 1957. Closer than a brother. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1955–56: 87-90 [Date published 31/12/1957] (as host)

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