Species Lipotriches (Austronomia) flavoviridis (Cockerell, 1905)

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• Nomia flavoviridis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. New Australian bees of the genus Nomia. The Entomologist 38: 217-223 [Date published 31/12/1905] [222].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂ (a specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.1744), Mackay, QLD.
• Nomia aenescens Friese, H. 1912. Zur Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea und Oceania. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 6: 93-96 [Date published 31/12/1912] [94].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀, Sialum, Papua New Guinea (as German New Guinea).
• Nomia flavoviridis rubra 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] [172] [junior primary homonym of Nomia rubra Friese, 1904].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) WADA 5♀, Gosnells and Perth, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Krombein, K.V. 1951. Additional notes on the bees of the Solomon Islands (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 14: 277-295 [Date published 31/12/1951] [284]

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), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Males cluster, flower visiting record: Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Melastoma L. [Melastomataceae], Solanum L. [Solanaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

General References

Anderson, G.J. & Symon, D. 1988. Insect foragers on Solanum flowers in Australia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 75: 842-852 [Date published 31/12/1988] (flower record)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. LV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 12: 505-514 [Date published 31/12/1913] (description of female)

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]] (taxonomy)

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

Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] (redescription, as Nomia aenescens Friese, 1912)

Krombein, K.V. 1951. Additional notes on the bees of the Solomon Islands (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 14: 277-295 [Date published 31/12/1951] (distribution)

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)

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. 1947. Biology and taxonomy of the solitary bee, Parasphecodes fulviventris (Friese). The Australian Zoologist 11: 76-95 [Date published 31/12/1947] (biology)

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