Species Thyreus rotundatus (Friese, 1905)
- Crocisa rotundata Friese, H. 1905. Neue Crocisa-Arten der Tropen (Hym.). Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 5: 2-12 [Date published 31/12/1905] [4].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB ♂, Mackay, QLD. - Crocisa albifrons Rayment, T. 1931. Bees in the collections of the Western Australian Museum and the Agricultural Department, Perth. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 17: 157-190 [Date published 31/12/1931] [172].
Type data:
Holotype WAM 29–883 ♀, Landor Station, WA.
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] [193]
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Mackay and Landor Station, Gascoyne River district.
IBRA
Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Cleptoparasitic, probably on Amegilla, flower visiting record: Loranthus Jacq. [Loranthaceae].
General References
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 Crocisa albifrons Rayment, 1931)
History of changes
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