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
1
1
114
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
(
Leioproctus
)
quadrimaculatus
sp.n.
Types
Leioproctus
(
Leioproctus
)
quadrimaculatus
—
Queensland
:
holotype
♀
, Kuranda, 1916,
F.P. Dodd
(
BMNH
);
paratypes
,
2♀
,
2♂
, same data as holotype
.
Collection months:
Unknown.
Floral visitations:
Unknown.
Female
—
Length ca
8 mm
; small, slender wasp-like.
Head
—
Frons rugulose; facial fovea vaguely indicated by broad lateral area lacking ridges; F1–2 shorter than long; F4–11 length about the same as width; scape reaching median ocellus; paraocular area with small, weak punctures with minutely roughened interspaces; supraclypeal area raised with a few scattered punctures; clypeus slightly elevated with large punctures with smooth, shiny interspaces; mandibles slender; gena about the same width as eye when viewed laterally; hair white, of moderate length and density, branched.
Mesosoma
—
Dorsal scutum brown with patch of short, yellow hair on antero-lateral area and beneath tegulae; lateral scutellum with patch of dense, short, yellow hair; pronotal spiracle cover lobe with dense, yellow hair; wing membrane clear; pterostigma broad; tegulae dark brown; marginal cell slender apically divergent from costa for short distance; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell towards the base; propodeal triangle with subhorizontal basal area longer than metanotum. Legs with outer hind tibial scopa yellow and darker area below basitibial plate; inner hind tibial spur with about 5 long, moderately thick teeth.
Metasoma
—
Sternal hair sparse;—surface sculpture with sparse punctures with granular interspaces pygidial plate raised medially, broadly rounded apically; prepygidial fimbria short, dense, black.
Male
—
As for female except as follows. Length ca
7 mm
.
Head
—
Antennal sockets not depressed; first flagella segment length about half width; F2–11 length greater than width; flagellum paler than scape.
Mesosoma
—
Legs slender, hair short, simple; tibia and tarsi yellow; basitibial plate small, apically rounded.
Metasoma
—
For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 45–47.