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
1175-5326
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Goniocolletes perfasciatus
(
Cockerell, 1906
)
Paracolletes perfasciatus
*
Cockerell 1906: 25
;
1934:32
.
Leioproctus
(
Goniocolletes
)
perfasciatus
(Cockerell)
.
Michener 1965: 66
.
Type
Paracolletes perfasciatus
—
Western Australia
:
holotype
♀
(
BMNH 17
a.424).
Additional material examined:
18♀
,
20♂
Queensland
: 38 k
E Cunnamulla
.
New South Wales
: 80 k
NE Wentworth
;
Caldwell
.
Victoria
:
20 miles
(32 k)
SE Mildura
;
Lake Hattah
;
Normanville
; 19 k
S Murrayville
.
South Australia
: 7 k
W Sherlock
; 0.5 k
S Morganvale HS
; Makaranka, Morgan;
7 miles
(11.2 k),
E Taylorville
; Hartley; 6.5 k
W Lameroo
; 13 k
S Geranium
.
Western Australia
: 7 k
N Wannoo
; 13 k
SE Dongara
; 23 k S
Mingenew
.
Months collected:
January, February, March, April, December.
Floral visitations:
Myrtaceae
:
Angophora floribunda
,
Eucalyptus largiflorens
,
Eucalyptus
spp.
, Mallee.
Female—
Length ca
11 mm
; head and mesosoma black; metasoma black.
Head—
Facial fovea clearly defined on all margins; mandibles reddish with darkened tips; malar space with length about 0.3 x width, covered in white hair; hair white, densely branched on paraocular and frons, simple on clypeus and supraclypeal area.
Mesosoma
—
Hair white to off-white; propodeal triangle with basal area polished with a few carinae, vertical area with carinae dorsolaterally; inner hind tibial spur with about 7 long, slender teeth; basitibial plate covered in dense, dark branched hair, marginal carina obscured.
Metasoma—
Apical tergal margins translucent; strong white apical hair bands present on T2–4; prepygidial fimbria black; hair sparse, fine short, white; pygidial plate flat, rough, broadly rounded apically; gradulus weak.
Male
—
As for female except as follows: Length ca
11 mm
.
Head—
Hair yellow, appressed around marginal areas, erect medially; flagellar segments expanded on posterior surface, yellow except for dorsal black stripe; mandibles black, slender with reddish tips; labrum broad, shallowly convex, polished; beard, long, pale yellow.
Mesosoma
—
Legs brown, with tarsi, anterior fore tibiae and hind tibiae yellow, mid trochanter with ventral projection; all femora, mid and hind tibiae swollen, basitarsi flattened, hind basitarsi broad; hair of scutum and scutellum pale yellow long, dense.
Metasoma
—
Hair pale yellow; T1 with long, dense hair; T2– 5 with pale, short hair; T2–5 with narrow apical hair bands, margins transparent; S2–4 with short, dense fringes; S6 with an apical tuft; T7 completely bare; S8 projects strongly. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 220–222.