Genus Lithurgus Berthold, 1827

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• Lithurgus Berthold, A.A. 1827. Latreille's Natürliche Familien des Thierreichs. Aus dem Franzosischen, mit Anmerkungen und Zusützen. Weimar : Verlage Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs Vol. x xiii, 606 pp. [467] [emendation].

  Type species:

   Andrena cornuta Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.
• Lithurge Latreille, P.A. 1825. Familles Naturelles du Règne Animal, exposées succinctement et dans un ordre analytique, avec l'indication de leurs genres. Paris : J.-B. Baillière 570 pp. [463].

  Type species:

   Andrena cornuta Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.

Introduction

The decision to use Lithurgus is given in detail by Michener ( (1997) who said "Latreille's original spelling (1825) has been regarded by many authors as French vernacular unavailable as a scientific name (e.g. Fox 1902). Such authors use the emended Latinized form Lithurgus Berthold (1827), published in a translation of Latreille's work into German. The spelling Lithurge, as noted by Fox (1902), was used by Lepeletier and Serville (1828: 795) but they were writing in French and used other French vernacular names. Lithurge was shown as the correct name by Sandhouse (1943) and has since been used by Michener (1944, 1951), Hurd (1979), and others in major studies and catalogues. I now believe, however, that the authors using Lithurgus are correct." [M. Batley, pers. comm. 2013]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

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]

History of changes