Bees of the Colletes clypearis - group (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from China with descriptions of seven new species
Author
Niu, Ze-Qing
Author
Zhu, Chao-Dong
Author
Kuhlmann, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2013
3745
2
101
151
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3745.2.1
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1175-5326
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Colletes yanruae
sp. n.
(
Figs 29
a–e, 32w)
Diagnosis.
The female belongs to a group of species with very finely and densely punctate terga (
Fig. 29
d) namely
C. babai
Hirashima & Tadauchi
(only known from
Japan
),
C. sodalis
and
C. heilongtanensis
sp. n.
C. yanruae
differs from
C. babai
and
C. sodalis
in the distinctly narrower apical tergal hair bands (
Fig. 29
d) and the much longer hairs on the scutum (about twice as long as in latter species) (
Fig. 29
c) while
C. heilongtanensis
sp. n.
has a more sparsely punctate and shiny clypeus (
Fig. 24
b). The male is unknown.
Description.
Female, BL=
9.5–11mm
(
Fig. 29
a); head broader than long, HW: HL=58: 50 (
Fig. 29
b); gena nearly as wide as eye in lateral view, GW: EW=10: 11; width of metasoma as broad as that between tegulae, MtW: TW=65: 65. Clypeus broader than long, densely and coarsely punctate (
Fig. 29
b); disc of scutum shiny, densely punctuate, i=0.5–1.5d (
Fig. 29
c); malar area medially shorter than width of mandible base, only 1/2 long as the width of mandible base; facial fovea as broad as the width of antennal flagellum; vertex behind eye rounded; propodeum laterally covered with sparse long erect hairs, integumental sculpture completely visible; posterior margin of T1 opaque dark brown; punctation on disc of T1 fine and dense, i=0.5–1.0d (
Fig. 29
e); T1–T5 with narrower apical hair bands (
Fig. 29
d), apical hair band on T1 broadly interrupted medically, T2 without basal hair band, apical hair band on T2 nearly 1/6 width as that of the related exposed T2 (
Fig. 29
e); sloping anterior and lateral anterior parts of T1 sparsely covered with erect white long plumose hairs (
Fig. 29
d, 29e); Antennal flagellum ventrally black; distitarsus of all legs dark brown, other parts black. Face, vertex and scutum covered with dark paler yellowish white erect long plumose hairs, intermixed with some black hairs (
Figs. 29
b, 29c), especially pilosity on scutum much longer (
Fig. 29
e); mesepisternum covered with sparse long paler white plumose hairs (
Fig. 29
a).
Male unknown.
Type
material.
Holotype
: 1♀,
China
, Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulong Shan (
100º18′E
27º06′N
),
2850m
,
19.VII.1984
, coll. Chang-Fang Li;
Paratypes
: 3♀,
China
, Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulong Shan (
100º18′E
27º06′N
),
2850m
,
17.VII.1984
, coll. Chang-Fang Li; 2♀,
China
, Yunnan, Lijiang, Baishui (
103º54′E
24º30′N
),
3200m
,
17.VII.1984
, coll. Jian-Guo Fan.
Distribution.
China
(Yunnan) (
Fig. 32
w).
Floral records.
No record.
Etymology.
The specific name is dedicated to Professor Yan-Ru Wu of Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences for her contributions to bee taxonomy.