Species Thyreus lugubris (Smith, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crocisa lugubris Smith, F. 1879. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxi 240 pp. [Date published 31/12/1879] [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.b.457 ♂ (described as ♀), Australia.
• Crocisa quadrinotata Radoszkowsky, O.I. 1893. [= Radoszkowski, O.I.] Revue des armures copulatrices des mâles des genres: Crocisa Jur., Melecta Lat., Pseudomelecta Rad., Chrysantheda Pert., Mesocheira Lep., Aglae Lep., Melissa Smith, Euglossa Lat., Eulema Lep., Acanthopus Klug. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou ns 7: 163-188 [Date published 31/12/1893] [176].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Australia (no locality given in original description).

  Type locality references:

  Meyer, R. 1921. Apidae—Nomadinae. I. Gattung Crocisa Jur. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 87((A)1): 67-178 [Date published 31/12/1921] [176].
• Crocisa turneri Friese, H. 1905. Neue Crocisa-Arten der Tropen (Hym.). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 5: 2-12 [Date published 31/12/1905] [3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB ♀, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lieftinck, M.A. 1962. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Thyreus Panzer (=Crocisa Jurine) (Hym., Apoidea, Anthophoridae). Part 3. Oriental and Australian species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 53: 1-212 [Date published 31/12/1962] [180].
• Crocisa albopicta Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Some bees of the genus Crocisa from Asia and Australia. The Entomologist 43: 216-220 [Date published 31/12/1910] [217].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.b.458 ♀, Mackay, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lieftinck, M.A. 1962. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Thyreus Panzer (=Crocisa Jurine) (Hym., Apoidea, Anthophoridae). Part 3. Oriental and Australian species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 53: 1-212 [Date published 31/12/1962] [179]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Cleptoparasitic on Amegilla (Asaropoda) sp.

General References

Cardale, J. 1968. Immature stages of Australian Anthophorinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 35-41 [Date published 31/12/1968] (immature stages)

Cardale, J. 1968. Parasites and other organisms associated with nests of Amegilla Friese (Hymenoptera: Anthophorinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 29-34 [Date published 31/12/1968] (biology)

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [54]

Rayment, T. 1951. A critical revision of species in the genus Asaropoda by new characters. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 17: 65-80 [Date published 31/12/1951] (biology)

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