Species Lipotriches (Austronomia) moerens (Smith, 1875)

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• Nomia moerens 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:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.1755 ♀, Australia (as New Holland).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities [Lamington] National Park (QLD), North Gippsland, Wandin and Ferntree Gully.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae].

 

General References

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] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922] (distribution)

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] (as Nomia maerens, incorrect subsequent spelling)

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. (flower record)

Westwood, J.O. 1875. Descriptions of some new species of short-tongued bees belonging to the genus Nomia of Latreille. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1875: 207-222 [Date published 31/12/1875] (distribution, from Van Diemens Land)

 

History of changes

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