Lasioglossum glabriventre (Crawford, 1907)
Properties
Scientific Name: Lasioglossum glabriventre (Crawford, 1907)
Common Name: Smooth-bellied Sweat Bee
Taxonomy
Halictus Vachali Crawford, 1906, in Viereck et al. 1906: 300 [♀]. Preoccupied, not Halictus vachalii Bingham, 1897 (= Nomioides feai Vachal, 1895).
Holotype ♀. USA, Oregon, Corvallis, 6 June 1898, by [USNM no. 29424].
Halictus glabriventris Crawford, 1907: 21. Replacement name for Halictus vachali Crawford, 1906.
Taxonomic notes: The ♂ has not been described.
Crawford (1906: 300) noted the similarity of his H. vachali Crawford, 1906 and the female of H. kincaidii Cockerell, 1898, both sharing the large, punctured tegulae, but distinguished them by the finer punctures of the mesothorax in the former (and see Crawford 1907: 184). He (Crawford 1907) subsequently revised the group (as Halictus) but did not recognize the males of either.
Though originally described as Halictus vachali Crawford, 1906, this name is preoccupied by Halictus vachalii Bingham, 1897, an unneccessary replacement name proposed by Bingham (1897: 426) based on his assumption that Nomioides feai Vachal, 1895 belonged to the genus Halictus and was thus preoccupied by Halictus feai Vachal, 1895; interestingly, Vachal desribed both species in the same work.
Friese (1916: 561) also named a Chilean species Halictus glabriventris Friese, 1916, but Cockerell (1926: 219) recognized the synonymy and provided the new name Halictus grabrescens Cockerell, 1926; Michener and Wille (1961: 1126) subsequently and incorrectly recognized Halictus glabriventris Friese as a synonym of Lasioglossum aricense (Schrottky, 1910). Though (Eickwort: 1969: 658) correctly recognized the species as a member of the augochlorine genus Halictillus, he also considered Friese’s species valid. Engel (1996: 108) corrected the taxonomy, recognizing Halictillus glabrescens (Cockerell, 1926) as the correct name.
Biology: Hicks (1936: 47) indicated that L. glabiventre nested in fine sand.
Distribution in Canada: Sheffield and Heron 2019 [BC].
Body length: ♀ 6.5 mm
References
Eickwort GC (1969) Tribal positions of Western Hemisphere green sweat bees, with comments on their nest architecture (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62(3): 652-660.https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/62.3.652
Sheffield CS, Heron JM (2019) The bees of British Columbia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 115: 44-85.https://journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1001/1097
Viereck HL, Cockerell TD, Titus ES, Crawford JC, Swenk MH (1906) Synopsis of bees of Oregon. Washington, British Columbia and Vancouver.—V. The Canadian Entomologist 38(9): 297-304. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent38297-9
Bingham CT (1897) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. —Vol. I. Wasps and Bees. Taylor and Francis, London. xxix + 579 pp.
Vachal J (1895) Nouvelles espèces d’Hyménoptères des genres Halictus, Prosopis, Allodape et Nomioides rapportées par M. Fea de la Birmaine. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, Series 2 34: 428-449.
Crawford JC (1907) Preoccupied names of bees. The Canadian Entomologist 39(1): 21. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent3921-1
Friese H (1916) Die Halictus-Arten von Chile. (Hym.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1916(5-6): 547-564.
Michener CD, Wille A (1961) The bionomics of a primitively social bee, Lasioglossum inconspicuum. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42(11): 1123-1202.
Engel MS (1996) Taxonomic and geographic notes on some halictine bee species (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 104(1-2): 106-110.
Hicks CH (1936) Nesting habtis of certain western bees. The Canadian Entomologist 68(3): 47-52. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent6847-3
Crawford JC (1907) Notes on some species of the genus Halictus. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 15: 183-189. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25003283
Cockerell TDA (1926) Descriptions and records of bees.—CXII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 18(104): 216-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932608633504
Sociality: Solitary
Nesting: Ground
Pollen Specialization: Polylectic
Wintering Stage: Mated Female
Crop Preference: Not Available
Non Crop Preference: Not Available
Distribution: British Columbia
Ecozone: Western Interior Basin