Species Meroglossa striaticeps (Friese, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis striaticeps Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♀, Mackay, QLD.
• Meroglossa chiropterina Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Australian bees in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche (Cambridge) 37: 141-154 [Date published 31/12/1930] [148].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCZ 16342 ♂ (described as ♀), Halifax, 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] [122]; 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. [153] (interprets Houstons incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

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] [122]

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), 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], Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Melaleuca L. [Myrtaceae], Rosa L. [Rosaceae], Xanthorrhoea Sm. [Xanthorrhoeaceae].

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]] (as synonym of Meroglossa (Meroglossula) sculptissima Cockerell, 1910)

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