Species Paracolletes (Paracolletes) crassipes Smith, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paracolletes crassipes 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] [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.422 ♀, Swan River, WA.
• Paracolletes australis Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [220].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH ♂ ♀, Sydney and Mittagong, NSW and Adelaide, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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]] [1]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae], Leptospermum Forster & G.Forster [Myrtaceae].

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. On a collection of Australian and Asiatic bees. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23: 221-236 [Date published 31/12/1907] (distribution)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 377-387 [Date published 31/12/1912] (description of male)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. LVI. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 136-146 [Date published 31/12/1914] (distribution)

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)

Rayment, T. 1947. What of the Planidia? Victorian Naturalist 64: 31-32 [Date published 31/12/1947] (as host)

Rozen, J.G. Jr. & Houston, T.F. 2022. Descriptions of the mature larvae of three Australian ground-nesting Bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Diphaglossinae and Neopasiphaeinae). American Museum Novitates 3989: 1-15

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