Species Meroglossa eucalypti Cockerell, 1910

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• Meroglossa eucalypti Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Descriptions and records of bees. XXX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 6: 17-31 [Date published 31/12/1910] [18].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ (a male specimen is labelled 'type' and has registration number Hym.17.a.220), Mackay, QLD.
• Meroglossa deceptor Perkins, R.C.L. 1912. Notes, with descriptions of new species, on aculeate Hymenoptera of the Australian Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 96-121 [Date published 31/12/1912] [101].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Hym.17.a.2624 ♂, as Cairns, Herberton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Houston, T.F. 1975. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). I. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 36: 1-135 [Date published 31/12/1975] [116]; Cardale, J.C. in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds) 1993. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 10 x, 406 pp. [150] (interprets Houston's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Prosopis disjuncta Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [226] [junior primary homonym of Prosopis disjuncta Cockerell, 1905].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ (number of specimens unknown), Mackay, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houston, T.F. 1975. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). I. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 36: 1-135 [Date published 31/12/1975] [116]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Barringtonia Forster & G. Forster [Lecythidaceae], Borreria G. Meyer [Rubiaceae], Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Rosa L. [Rosaceae], Tristania R.Br. [Myrtaceae].

General References

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)

Perkins, R.C.L. 1912. Notes, with descriptions of new species, on aculeate Hymenoptera of the Australian Region. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 96-121 [Date published 31/12/1912] (taxonomy)

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