Species Trichocolletes burnsi Michener, 1965

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) burnsi 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] [263].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T–6265 ♀, Wentworth Falls, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Trichocolletes burnsi Michener, 1965.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Montane areas of eastern Australia from southern Queensland to Victoria.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

No floral records available

 

Diagnosis

Length 12–14 mm; eyes not hairy; metasomal bands indistinct; clypeus short. Male hair on clypeus and supraclypeal area dorsally directed; mid basitarsus bowed; ventral surface of hind femur without hair. Female tarsal claws simple; metasomal terga without white hair.

 

General References

Batley, M. & Houston, T.F. 2012. Revision of the Australian bee genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini). Records of the Australian Museum 64(1): 1-50 [Date published 23 May 2012]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Sep-2012		07-Sep-2012	MOVED
22-Oct-2015		24-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED