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
6507387
C099D583-4AD5-48EB-8C20-8B6EDE58801D
Leioproctus
(
Minycolletes
)
eruditus
sp.n.
Types
Leioproctus
(
Minycolletes
)
eruditus
—
New South Wales
:
holotype
♀
,
40 miles
(64 k)
E Broken Hill
20.viii.1969
,
G.B. Monteith
(
QM
);
paratypes
17♀
, same data as holotype (
QM
)
.
Months collected:
August.
Floral visitations:
None recorded.
Female
—Length ca
7 mm
; integument black to dark brown; hair mostly white.
Head—
Hair moderately dense, long much branched hair; supraclypeal area shallowly raised, punctate; labial palps reach beyond apex of extended glossa, segments subequal in length; vertex slightly curved above lateral ocelli; facial foveae absent; inner eye margins almost straight, converging slightly dorsally and ventrally; surface sculpture of dense, small, clearly defined punctures with polished interspaces; female flagella F1, 4–11 length about equal to width, F2,3 length less than width; epistomal suture weak; clypeus almost flat; malar space absent; labrum short polished, length less than 0.25 x width; width of gena less than eye width, when head viewed laterally.
Mesosoma
—
Hair of scutum and scutellum moderately sparse, whitish brown; with small, clearly defined punctures and polished interspaces; propodeal triangle polished, without a defined basal area lateral foveae not extending beyond basal area; metanotum short, not tuberculate. Wings with first recurrent vein entering second submarginal cell medially, stigma large, about 0.6 x length of costal margin of marginal cell; marginal cell broad, apex strongly divergent from costa; jugal lobe of hind wing narrow, reaching beyond cu-a; wing membrane clear. Hind legs with hind basitibial plate with dense, thick, whitish hair, apex pointed, 0.25 x length of tibia covered in dense, simple hair; inner hind tibial spur with about 11 fine teeth; claws with moderate to small inner ramus.
Metasoma—
Hair, short, dense, fine white hair; Gradulus weak or absent; pregradular area with minute punctures with granular interspaces; postgradular area similar but with fewer punctures; pygidial plate narrow apex with a granular surface; prepygidial fimbria whitish, dense, plumose hair; integument dark brown to black; S2–4 with long, fine branched hair.
Male
—
Unknown.