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) .