Species Lipotriches (Austronomia) australica (Smith, 1875)

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• Nomia australica Smith, F. 1875. Descriptions of new species of bees belonging to the genus Nomia of Latreille. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1875: 53-70 pl. ii [Date published 31/12/1875] [60].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ (number of specimens unknown, a male specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.1735♂), Moreton Bay QLD, Port Philip VIC, Adelaide SA, Swan River & Champion Bay WA.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest gregariously in soil, males cluster, flower visiting record: lucerne, Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae], Angophora Cav. [Myrtaceae], Brunonia R.Br. [Brunoniaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Carduus L. [Asteraceae], Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Coreopsis L. [Asteraceae], Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], ?Epacris Cav. [Epacridaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Hibbertia Andrews [Dilleniaceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Leucopogon R.Br. [Epacridaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Melastoma L. [Melastomataceae], Oxylobium Andrews [Fabaceae], Plectronia L. [Rubiaceae], Rosa L. [Rosaceae], Rubus L. [Rosaceae].

 

General References

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] (taxonomy)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1931. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 7: 34-54 [Date published 31/12/1931] (taxonomy)

Dalla Torre, K.W. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Apidae (Anthophila). Lipsiae : G. Engelmann Vol. x 643 pp. [Date published 31/12/1896] (unnecessary emendation to Nomia australiaca)

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [42] (biology)

Doull, K.M. 1961. Insect problems of lucerne seed production in South Australia. Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 27: 11-15 [Date published 31/12/1961] (biology)

Friese, H. 1917. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910–1913. 13. Apidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(2): 1-9 [Date published 31/12/1917] (as Nomia australasiaca, incorrect subsequent spelling)

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] (flower record)

Michener, C.D. & Houston, T.F. 1991. Apoidea. pp. 993-1000 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137. (illustration)

Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] (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. (biology)

Rayment, T. 1956. The Nomia australica Sm. complex. Its taxonomy, morphology and biology with the description of a new mutillid wasp. The Australian Zoologist 12: 176-200 [Date published 31/12/1956] (biology)

Vogel, M.E. & Kukuk, P.F. 1994. Individual foraging effort in the facultatively social halictid bee, Nomia (Austronomia) australica (Smith). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 67(3): 225-235 [Date published July] [225] (biology)

 

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