Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa
Author
Maynard, Glynn Vivian
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Zootaxa
2013
2013-09-19
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1
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Leioproctus
(
Leioproctus
)
boroniae
(
Cockerell, 1921
)
Paracolletes boroniae
*
Cockerell 1921: 92
, 97; 1934: 22.
Leioproctus
(
Leioproctus
)
boroniae
(Cockerell)
.
Michener 1965: 50
.
Type
Paracolletes boroniae
—
Queensland
:
holotype
♀
, Birkdale, Brisbane,
5.ix.1916
,
H. Hacker
off
Boronia ledifolia
blossom (
QM
)
.
Collection months:
September.
Floral visitations
:
Rutaceae
:
Boronia ledifolia
.
Female
. Length ca
11 mm
; green metallic metasoma.
Head
—Ocelloccipital distance strongly depressed; frontal line depressed on upper fifth; anterior flagellum pale; interspaces on clypeus very narrow, smooth; malar space a little longer than half width of base of mandible.
Mesosoma
—Scutal and scutellar interspaces smooth to granular; propodeal triangle without transverse carina; first recurrent vein of forewing enters second submarginal cell basal to middle. Scopa black dorsally, pale ventrally; posterior area with hairs with 2 closely opposed rows of branches; inner hind tibial spur with 8 teeth.
Metasoma
—Pygidial plate obscured.
Male.—
Unknown.
Notes.
This species is known only from the female
holotype
. The malar space is longer than in other species in this group. It is very similar to
L
.
plumosus
and the 2 species key out together. Until more specimens, including males, are available, differentiation of the species will be difficult.