Species Pachyprosopis (Pachyprosopula) kellyi Cockerell, 1916

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• Pachyprosopis kellyi Cockerell, T.D.A. 1916. Descriptions and records of bees. LXXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 17: 428-435 [Date published 31/12/1916] [432].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.316 ♀, Mt Yule, Healesville, VIC.
• Pachyprosopis angulifera Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] [298].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QM T3724 2 ♂, [Lamington] National Park, QLD.
• Pachyprosopis strigata 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. [648].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC 2♂, Sandringham, VIC.
• Pachyprosopis fulvescens 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. [648].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Sandringham, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Exley, E.M. 1972. Revision of the genus Pachyprosopis Perkins (Apoidea: Colletidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 10: 1-43 [Date published 31/12/1972] [33]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].

General References

Hingston, A.B. 1998. Temporal and spatial variation in abundances of native bee species on an altitudinal gradient in southern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 497-507 [499] (distribution)

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [367]

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] (generic placement, as Pachyprosopis (Pachyprosopula) kelleyi in fig. 335, incorrect subsequent spelling)

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