1. PaDIL Species Factsheet Scientific Name: Homalictus Overview - (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictinae: Halictini) Common Name Homalictus Generic Overview Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pollinators/Pest/Main/138192 Image Library Australian Pollinators Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pollinators/ Partners for Australian Pollinators image library Western Australian Museum https://museum.wa.gov.au/ South Australian Museum https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/ Australian Museum https://australian.museum/ Museums Victoria https://museumsvictoria.com.au/ 2. Species Information 2.1. Details Specimen Contact: Museum Victoria - [email protected] Author: Walker, K. Citation: Walker, K. (2008) Homalictus Generic Overview(Homalictus Overview)Updated on 7/19/2010 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0) 2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pollinators/Pest/Main/138192 2.3. Facets Status: Native Australian Beneficial Species Host Genera: Fresh Flowers Bio-Region: Australasian - Oceanian Host Family: Not recorded 2.4. Diagnostic Notes Homalictus Cockerell, T.D.A. (1919). The metallic-coloured Halictine bees of the Philippine Islands. Philipp. J. Sci. 15: 9-13 [13] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Halictus Latreille, 1804]. Type species: Halictus taclobanensis Cockerell, 1915 by original designation. Subgenera: Homalictus (Homalictus) Cockerell, 1919 Homalictus (Papualictus) Michener, 1980 Homalictus (Quasilictus) Walker, 1986 Danforth, Bryan N., and Shuqing Ji (2001) published: Australian Lasioglossum + Homalictus Form a Monophyletic Group: Resolving the "Australian Enigma" Systematic Biology, vol. 50, no. 2: 268-283. Michener (2007) retains Homalictus as a valid genus. Metasoma flattened showing distinct angles between dorsal and ventral surfaces; enormous scopal hairs arising from lateroventral surface of terga and on sterna; scopal hairs on hind femora plumose and arise on under surface of femora; large hairs on hind tibia pectinate, werect and clearly differentiated form the usually shorter, erect hairs on lower distal part of outer surface; hind tibia margin sinuous; forewing with weak third submarginal crossvein and second recurrent vein. Males with gonobase continuing the contours of the gonocoxite. 2.5. Web Links Generic description: http://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/padil/pdf/Homalictus_generic_description.pdf ITIS page treating Homalictus as forming a monophyletic group with Lasioglossum: http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634153 3. Diagnostic Images Maps H. flindersi Distribution maps: Ken Walker Museums Dorsal view - female: Ken Walker Museums Victoria Victoria H. flindersi H. ctenander Holotype Vic. Kerang 1948, Dorsal view - male: Ken Walker Museums A.T. Victoria Forewing - female: Ken Walker Museums Victoria H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. flindersi Gaster venter - female: Ken Walker Gaster venter - male: Ken Walker Museums Museums Victoria Victoria H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. flindersi Genitalia - male: Ken Walker Museums Head front - male: Ken Walker Museums Victoria Victoria H. caloundrensis Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. caloundrensis Hind basitibial plate - female: Ken Walker Hind basitibial plate - male: Ken Walker Museums Victoria Museums Victoria H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. caloundrensis Hind femur hair pattern: Ken Walker Hind tarsi - male: Ken Walker Museums Museums Victoria Victoria H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. Hind tibial shape: Ken Walker Museums Inner hind tibial spur - female: Ken Walker Victoria Museums Victoria H. eurhopodus Australia: North Queensland: H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. 8km W of babinda, Nov 1988, K. Walker Lateral gastral shape: Ken Walker Museums Labrum: Ken Walker Museums Victoria Victoria H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. flindersi Lateral view - female: Ken Walker Museums Lateral view - male: Ken Walker Museums Victoria Victoria H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. H. caloundrensis - Vic. Mildura, 1953, N.D. Metasomal T1: Ken Walker Museums Plumose hair type: Ken Walker Museums Victoria Victoria Results Generated: Thursday, October 7, 2021 .