Species Leioproctus (Leioproctus) platycephalus (Cockerell, 1912)

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• Paracolletes platycephalus 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] [379].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.476 ♀, VIC.
• Paracolletes truncatulus Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. L. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 273-283 [Date published 31/12/1913] [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.484 ♀, 'Blackwood, Australia' (probably VIC or SA).
• Paracolletes nigropurpureus 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. [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Heathmont, near Melbourne, VIC.
• Dasycolletes rufoaeneus Friese, H. 1924. Ueber die Bienen Australiens. Konowia 3: 216-249 [Date published 31/12/1924] [219].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AMNH 4♂, Adelaide, SA.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records (Maynard 2013): Cyperaceae: Scleria; Epacridaceae: Leucopogon; Fabaceae: Davievsia mimosoides, Pultenaea largiflorens, Dillwynia, Eutaxia

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. L. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 273-283 [Date published 31/12/1913] (description of male)

Maynard, G.V. 1992. Systematic Studies on Australian Leioproctus Smith (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Unpubl. PhD Thesis. Brisbane : Univ. of Queensland. 429 pp. (distribution)

Maynard, G.V. 2013. Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa. Zootaxa 3715(1): 1-114

Rayment, T. 1953. Bees of the Portland District. Victoria : Portland Field Naturalist's Club 39 pp. [Date published 31/12/1953] (distribution)

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