New species of Goniocolletes and Trichocolletes (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) from southern Australia

Abstract

Goniocolletes comatus Maynard, 2013 is redescribed. Goniocolletes wanni sp. n. and the male of Trichocolletes luteorufus Batley & Houston, 2012 are described.

New bee species from northern Queensland, Australia (Hymenoptera: Colletidae, Halictidae, Megachilidae)

“…Importantly, the Bush Blitz programme does not only allow taxonomists to discover new species during surveys at remote and under‐sampled locations, the programme also provides grants to describe new species or revise taxa that were collected on these surveys. As a result of this programme, 1657 fauna species (https://bushblitz.org.au/reports/), including 40 bees that species have been described (Hogendoorn et al 2015; Leijs and Hogendoorn 2016; Leijs et al 2018, 2020) since the programme started.…”

Twenty six new species of Leioproctus (Colletellus): Australian Neopasiphaeinae, all but one with two submarginal cells (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, Leioproctus)

“…The latter surveys are the result of a partnership between the Australian Government, BHP Billiton and Earthwatch Australia to document fauna and flora from selected national reserves. These surveys regularly result in the discovery of new invertebrate species (e.g., true bugs: Symonds and Cassis 2014; spiders: Baehr et al 2013; bees: Hogendoorn et al 2015, Leijs and Hogendoorn 2016; review of new described species: Taylor et al 2017a, b).…”