Species Hylaeus (Planihylaeus) quadriceps (Smith, 1879)

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• Prosopis quadriceps 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] [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.87 ♀, Australia.
• Prosopis hobartiana Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. V. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 465-477 [Date published 31/12/1905] [470].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.86 ♂, Hobart, TAS.
• Gnathoprosopis marianella Rayment, T. 1931. Studies in Australian bees. A dweller among the reeds: Gnathoprosopis marianella Rayment. Victorian Naturalist 47: 135-141 [Date published 31/12/1931] [135] [the spelling marianella is used here, rather than marionellus as used by 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 (123); Rayment used marianella five times, before stating that the species was dedicated to Miss Marion Bonham and he used marianella twice more in 1935, without re-stating Miss Bonham's name; no other mention of 'Marion' has been found, so it has not been possible to check which spelling is correct].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Ferntree Gully (Dandenong), VIC.

  Secondary source:

   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].
• Gnathoprosopis striata 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. [647].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Denmark, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houston, T.F. 1981. A revision of the Australian hylaeine bees (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). II. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 80: 1-128 [Date published 31/12/1981] [106]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in reeds (Juncus communis E.Meyer [Juncaceae]), flower visiting record: Arctotheca Wendl. [Asteraceae], Hypochaeris L. [Asteraceae], Pratia Gaudich. [Campanulaceae], Wahlenbergia Roth [Campanulaceae].

General References

Hingston, A.B. 1999. Affinities between southern Tasmanian plants in native bee visitor profiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 361-384 [382] (flower record)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) quadriceps (Smith, 1879) and Hylaeus (Koptogaster) hobartiana (Cockerell, 1905))

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] (as Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) spp.)

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. (biology, as Gnathoprosopis marianella Rayment, 1931)

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