Species Meroglossa sulcifrons (Smith, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis sulcifrons 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] [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.216 ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
• Prosopis nigrifrons 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] [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.215 ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Prosopis grandis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [228].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀, 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] [130]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults found sheltering in a gallery in an Acacia Miller [Mimosaceae] tree, flower visiting record: blackberry, sweet clover, Boronia Sm. [Rutaceae], Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae], 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] [238] (flower record, as Meroglossa nigrifrons (Smith, 1853))

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. (flower record, as Meroglossa nigrifrons (Smith, 1853))

Rayment, T. 1954. Remarkable bees from a rain forest. The Australian Zoologist 12: 46-56 [Date published 31/12/1954] (biology, as Meroglossa nigrifrons (Smith, 1853))

History of changes