Subgenus Xylocopa (Lestis) Lepeletier & Serville, 1828

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lestis Lepeletier, A.L.M. & Serville, A. 1828. Tome x. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. 832 pp. in Latreille, P.A., Lepeletier, A.L.M., Serville, A. & Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (eds). Encyclopédie Méthodique. Paris : Agasse. [Date published 31/12/1828] [799].

  Type species:

   Apis bombylans Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1963. Opinion 657. Lestis Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): designation of a type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20: 181-182 [Date published 31/12/1963] [181].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

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