Species Trichocolletes tenuiculus Rayment, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichocolletes tenuiculus 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] [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Canowindra, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) tenuiculus Rayment, 1931.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Tablelands and slopes of New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting record: Daviesia Sm. [Fabaceae], Hardenbergia violacea Benth. [Fabaceae].

 

Diagnosis

Length c. 13 mm; eyes hairy; metasomal bands narrow, silver with brown anterior margins. Male fore basitarsus with a weak fringe rather than plume, S7 lateral lobes broadly triangular with truncated ends; scapes frequently with dark suffusions. Female flagellum with relatively long F1; frontal carina frequently ends in a small tubercle on the supraclypeal area.

 

Diagnosis 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] [40]

 

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]

Rayment, T. 1934. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island. VIII. Apoidea. With description of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20: 201-212 [Date published 31/12/1934] (illustration)

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. (illustration)

 

History of changes

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