Species Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) minusculus (Cockerell, 1913)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prosopis minuscula Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Some Australian bees. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 65: 28-44 [Date published 31/12/1913] [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.a.97 ♂, Croydon, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Caloundra, Croydon and TAS.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Flower visiting records: Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].

 

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929] (variety)

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

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] (generic placement)

Meade-Waldo, G. 1923. Hymenoptera. Fam. Apidae. Subfam. Prosopidinae. Genera Insectorum 181: 1-45 [Date published 31/12/1923] (as Hylaeus (Koptogaster) minuscula (Cockerell, 1913))

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 (Edriohylaeus) minusculus (Cockerell, 1913))

 

History of changes

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