Species Thyreus caeruleopunctatus (Blanchard, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crocisa caeruleopunctata Blanchard, E. 1840. Hyménoptères. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères, Névroptères, Hémiptères, Hyménoptères, Lépidoptères et Diptères. Paris : Duménil. 219-415 pp. [411].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
• Crocisa australensis Radoszkowsky, O.I. 1893. [= Radoszkowski, O.I.] Revue des armures copulatrices des mâles des genres: Crocisa Jur., Melecta Lat., Pseudomelecta Rad., Chrysantheda Pert., Mesocheira Lep., Aglae Lep., Melissa Smith, Euglossa Lat., Eulema Lep., Acanthopus Klug. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou ns 7: 163-188 [Date published 31/12/1893] [177].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♀, TAS (type locality probably incorrect, as this genus is not known to occur in TAS).

  Type locality references:

  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] [218].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lieftinck, M.A. 1959. Notes on some eighteenth century bees of the genus Thyreus Panzer, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 102: 17-34 [Date published 31/12/1959] [34]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, solitary.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Cleptoparasitic on Amegilla (Zonamegilla) pulchra (Smith, 1854).

General References

Cardale, J. 1968. Immature stages of Australian Anthophorinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 35-41 [Date published 31/12/1968] (immature stages)

Cardale, J. 1968. Parasites and other organisms associated with nests of Amegilla Friese (Hymenoptera: Anthophorinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 29-34 [Date published 31/12/1968] (biology)

Dollin, A., Batley, M., Robinson, M. & Faulkner, B. 2000. Native Bees of the Sydney Region. A Field Guide. North Richmond, NSW : Australian Native Bee Research Centre 70 pp. [53]

Lieftinck, M.A. 1962. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Thyreus Panzer (=Crocisa Jurine) (Hym., Apoidea, Anthophoridae). Part 3. Oriental and Australian species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 53: 1-212 [Date published 31/12/1962] (redescription, distribution)

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