Subspecies Meroglossa impressifrons impressifrons (Smith, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis impressifrons Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.225 ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
• Prosopis desponsa Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London : British Museum 197 pp. [Date published 31/12/1853] [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.226 ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Prosopis percrassa Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 465-477 [Date published 31/12/1905] [469].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.213 ♀, QLD.
• Meroglossa desponsa kershawi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] [32].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, VIC.
• Meroglossa desponsa sydneyana 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. [652].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Meroglossa impressifrons tuberculata 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] [272].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Clifton Gardens, Sydney, NSW.
• Meroglossa triangulata 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] [272].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Inverell, NSW.

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] [102]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Banksia L.f. [Proteaceae], Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Callistemon R.Br. [Myrtaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Jacksonia Smith [Fabaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], Loranthus Jacq. [Loranthaceae], Rosa L. [Rosaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

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] (flower record)

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] (generic placement)

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. (illustration)

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