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
3715
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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
(
Hadrocolletes
)
macrodontus
(Rayment, 1935)
Paracolletes macrodontus
*Rayment 1935: 674
.
Leioproctus
(
Nodocolletes
)
macrodontus
(Rayment)
.
Michener 1965: 63
.
Type
Paracolletes macrodontus
—
Western Australia
:
holotype
♂
, Cottesloe,
11.viii.1912
,
W.B.
A (
ANIC
)
.
Additional material examined:
7♀
,
18♂
Western Australia
: 8 k
S Yellowdine
;
9 miles
(14.4 k)
N New Norcia
;
10 miles
(16 k)
E
Southern Cross
.
Months collected:
August, September.
Floral visitations:
Proteaceae
:
Grevillea
,
Hakea perinacea
,
Banksia
.
Female
—
Length ca
13.5 mm
; integument dark brown to black.
Head—
Hair immediately dorsal to the antennal sockets white, above this dark brown, erect; clypeus with moderately sparse, white and black, branched hairs; malar space short; mandibles slender.
Mesosoma
—
Integument and vestiture similar to that of face; hair long, white and brown, plumose; metanotum with moderate sized median pustule. Wings with membrane clear, wings densely hairy except for basal area of sub-basal and anal cells of the fore wing. Inner hind tibial spur with 6 moderately slender teeth.
Metasoma—
T1 hair long, white and short branched; T2–4 short, moderately dense hair; prepygidial fimbria coarse, black; pygidial plate sharply constricted before the apex.
Male
—
As for female except as follows: Length ca
11 mm
.
Head—
Flagellar segments strongly protruding ventrally, dorsal apical margin slightly produced; clypeal hair moderately dense.
Mesosoma
—
Protuberance of metanotum long, stout; apex of hind basitibial plate rounded with fine hair.
Metasoma—
Broad; T7 bare, rough; S4–5 with long, apical fringe with the shortest hairs in the middle. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 145–147.