Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa
Author
Maynard, Glynn Vivian
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-09-19
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1
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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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Leioproctus
(
Exleycolletes
)
argentifrons
(Smith, 1879)
n.comb.
Lamprocolletes argentifrons
*Smith 1879: 11
;
Dalla Torre 1896: 47
.
Paracolletes argentifrons
(Smith)
.
Cockerell 1905a: 346
;
1934: 22
.
Leioproctus
(
Goniocolletes
)
argentifrons
(Smith)
.
Michener 1965: 66
.
Type
Lamprocolletes argentifrons
—
Western Australia
:
holotype
♂
,
Swan R.
(
BMNH 17
a.577)
Additional material examined:
2♂
Victoria
: Gunbower.
Western Australia
: no further data
.
Months collected:
March.
Floral visitations:
None known.
Female
—
Unknown.
Male
—
Length ca
11mm
.
Head—
Face below median ocellus covered in dense, white hair, appressed on lower paraocular area; F1, F2 length less than width; F3–11 length greater than width.
Mesosoma
—
Hair long, black dorsally; metanotum with low median tubercle; propodeal with basal area rough, not clearly defined. Legs orange-brown except for hind tibia, coxa and trochanter; fore tibia with long, white, posterior fringe.
Metasoma—
Tergal margins translucent; T2–3 with broad basal band of short, white hair; T7 broad, flat, rounded apically, more or less hairless with no clearly defined pygidial plate; S3–5 with long, thick, dense, apical fringe; S5 apical fringe shorter than of S3–4; S6 with median tuft of moderate length hair. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 121–123.