New and remarkable Asian and North African species of Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) Author Kuhlmann, Michael Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. text Zootaxa 2015 4028 1 81 101 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.1.3 0d506c04-4e65-4006-96ff-cfe88e4e4eae 1175-5326 239794 3B28DD7C-E7CD-45F8-9401-4E0125279A5B Colletes kazakhus Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin , sp. nov. ( Figs 6 a–d) Diagnosis. The characteristic shape of S7 of C. kazakhus with the dense fringe of short hairs along its apical and lateral margins ( Fig. 6 c) is unique and unmistakable. FIGURE 6. Colletes kazakhus Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin , sp. nov. , male: a. specimen, lateral view; b. metasomal terga 1 and 2; c. metasomal sternum 7 (dorsal view); d. gonostylus (lateral view). Scale bar: 1 mm. Description. Male. Bl = 7.0 mm. Head. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black except mandible dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with long white, erect hairs. Malar area medially about 1.5x as long as width of mandible base, finely striate, matt and sparsely covered with short erect hairs ( Fig. 6 a). Antenna black, flagellum ventrally yellowish-brown. Mesosoma. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc smooth and shiny between punctures; disc very sparsely punctate (i = 3–5d) with small punctures. Mesoscutellum almost completely impunctate, with dense punctation on apical margin, surface smooth and shiny. Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with long, greyish-white erect hairs ( Fig. 6 a). Wings. Translucent; wing venation light yellow. Legs. Integument black to dark reddish-brown; apical and basal parts of tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown. Vestiture greyish-white. Metasoma. Integument black except depressed apical tergal margins yellowish translucent ( Fig. 6 b). Terga densely covered with short appressed, yellowish-white hairs; T1 and disc of T2 additionally with abundant long erect hairs of the same colour; apical tergal hair bands narrow ( Fig. 6 b). Terga apically distinctly depressed. Terga with dense and fine punctation (i = 0.5–1d), smooth and shiny between punctures ( Fig. 6 b). Terminalia. Genitalia and S7 as illustrated in Figs 4 c–d. Female. Unknown. Type material ( 3 specimens ). Holotype , male, Kazakhstan : Zhar-Kol' Lake [ 67°20'E 50°25'N ], 21.VII.1951 , leg. V. Tobias [ ZISP ]. Paratypes : 2 ♂ , same dates and locality as holotype [ ZISP / RCMK ]. Etymology. The species name refers to Kazakhstan where it was collected. General distribution. Only known from the type locality in Kazakhstan . Floral hosts. Unknown.