Species Leioproctus (Zosterocolletes) ruficornis (Smith, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamprocolletes ruficornis Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.516 ♂, WA.
• Paracolletes velutinus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929] [208].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂, Eradu, WA.

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 [95]

Generic Combinations

• Leioproctus (Zosterocolletes) ruficornis (Smith, 1879). —
  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 [95]
• Paracolletes ruficornis (Smith, 1879). —
  Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31: 309-364 [Date published 31/12/1905] [347]
• Leioproctus (Leioproctus) ruficornis (Smith, 1879). —
  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 (Goniocolletes) velutinus (Cockerell, 1929). —
  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] [66]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records: Myrtaceae: Verticordia cerrata; Rutaceae: Boronia capitata

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. On a collection of Australian and Asiatic bees. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 221-236 [Date published 31/12/1907] (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. (description of male)

History of changes