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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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
(
Charicolletes
)
exleyae
sp.n.
Types
Leioproctus
(
Charicolletes
)
exleyae
—
South Australia
:
holotype
♂
, 120 k
N Innamincka
(
27°10'S
140°15'S
)
15.iv.1990
,
L. Jansen
off
Portulaca oleacea
&
Tribulus occidentalis
blossom (
QM
T);
paratypes
,
6♀
,
10♂
, same data as holotype (
SAM
)
.
Additional material examined:
161♀
Queensland
:
Lake Moondarra
via
Mt Isa
; 20 k
E
Mt Isa
; 5 k
E
Mt Isa
;
Edungalba
;
Glenmorgan
; 17 k
N St George
; 25 k
E Bollon
; 2 k
W St George
; 38 k
E Cunnamulla
; 5 k Nocatunga.
New South Wales
: 27 k
N Bourke
; 15 k
SE Moree
; 21 k
E Narrabri
; 3 k
S Narrabri
;
30 miles
(42 k)
W Cobar
; 55 k
NW Nyngan
;
Nyngan
; 2 k
W Nyngan
;
25 miles
(40 k)
W Nyngan
;
17 miles
(27.2 k)
N Broken Hill
;
50 miles
(80 k)
W Wentworth.
Australian Capital Territory
:
Black Mountain
.
Victoria
:
Lake Bael Bael
;
Kerang
;
Lake Meran
; Melton.
South Australia
: 34k
S Wilpena
;
Gawler Range
,
Kolay Dam
(
32°33'S
135°36'E
).
Western Australia
:
Newman
; 7 k
SE Newman.
Northern Territory
: 91 k
N Elliott
; 19 k
N Daly Waters
.
Months collected:
January, February, November, December.
Floral visitations:
Fabaceae
:
Acacia
;
Myrtaceae
:
Eucalyptus argillacea
,
Eucalyptus melanopholia
,
Eucalyptus largiflorens
,
Eucalyptus populnea
,
Eucalyptus intertexta
,
Eucalyptus
spp.
,
Angophora floribunda
.
Female
—Length ca
10 mm
; colour orange to mottled orange or black.
Head—
Facial foveae weakly impressed; frons covered with moderately dense, long, white hair; ocellocular area flat; frontal line carinate on lower part of frons, absent on upper part of frons; inner eye margin slightly converging; scape reaches median ocellus; apex of supraclypeal area raised; epistomal suture weak to moderately distinct; surface sculpture with very dense, sharply defined punctures with polished interspaces; clypeus with sparse hair; labrum polished, with a shallow median depression.
Mesosoma
—
Scutum covered in moderately dense, short, whitish, branched hair; sculpture of scutum as for face, punctation less dense posteriomedially; metanotum with a low rounded median tubercle; propodeal triangle almost vertical, basally with several fine transverse striae, elsewhere polished; fore wings with pterostigma parallel sided, about 0.5 x length of costal marginal of marginal cell, apex of marginal cell blunt, not strongly divergent from costa; jugal lobe of hind wing reaching cu-a. Legs with fore tibial spur with several fine teeth on apex; basitibial plate with thick, branched hairs; hind tibial scopa white with monopodally branched hair on dorsal posterior area; inner hind tibial spur with 4–5 thick teeth.
Metasoma—
Surface sculpture as for mesosoma; covered in fine, short hairs; T5 with dense, dark prepygidial fimbria; pygidial plate broad, flat, with a few, irregular, longitudinal striae; sterna with apical marginal band of long, hair, mostly simple with some branched laterally.
Male
—As for female except as follows: Length ca
9 mm
.
Head—
Clypeus with moderately dense, branched hair.
Mesosoma
—
Scutum with long hair, hind leg with sparse, long branched hair.
Metasoma—
Tergal hair long, whitish, shaggy; S3–4 with dense, long, white apical fringes. T7 bare medially; for S7–8 and genitalia see figs 106–108.