Protomorpha Rayment

Almeida, Eduardo A. B., 2008, Revised species checklist of the Paracolletinae (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) of the Australian Region, with the description of new taxa, Zootaxa 1891, pp. 1-24 : 13

Genus Protomorpha Rayment

Protomorpha Rayment 1959: 334 . Type species: Protomorpha tarsalis Rayment 1959 , by original designation.

Leioproctus (Microcolletes) ; Michener 1965: 55. Type species: Paracolletes halictiformis Cockerell 1916 c (= Paracolletes minutus Cockerell 1916 a, = Leioproctus halictomimus Michener 1965 ); by original designation.

Geographic distribution: continental Australia.

Included species (5): Protomorpha alloeopus ( Maynard 1991) , comb.n. [ Leioproctus (Protomorpha) ]; Protomorpha fallax ( Cockerell 1921) [ Paracolletes ]; Protomorpha minuta ( Cockerell 1916a) , comb.n. [ Paracolletes ] (= Paracolletes halictiformis Cockerell 1916 c, Leioproctus halictomimus Michener 1965 ); Protomorpha plauta ( Maynard 1991), comb.n. [ Leioproctus (Protomorpha) ]; Protomorpha tarsalis Rayment 1959 .

Comments. Protomorpha was revised by Maynard (1991), who treated it as Leioproctus (Protomorpha) .