Revision of the bees of the Colletes fasciatus-group in southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)
Author
Kuhlmann, Michael
text
African Invertebrates
2007
2007-12-31
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.7667881
2305-2562
7667881
Colletes nieuwoudtvillei
sp. n.
Figs 32, 33
,
43
Etymology: Named for the town Nieuwoudtville.
Diagnosis: Male best identified by the unique shape of S7 (
Fig. 32
). Description:
Female
. Unknown.
Male
.
Length
10–11 mm
.
Vestiture: Face yellowish brown with black hairs intermixed along inner eye margins; mesonotum with long, yellowish brown hairs intermixed with a few longer, black hairs; mesosomal sides and legs yellowish brown, scutellum and metanotum with long, orangebrown hairs intermixed with a few brownish hairs; T1 densely covered with long, erect, yellowish brown hairs; disc of T2 with shorter concolorous hairs; discs of T3–T6 with long, erect, blackish hairs; T1–T5 with broad, thin white posterior tergal hair bands on; S2–S5 with dense but relatively short fringes laterally.
Integument: Completely black, except tarsi partly reddish to yellowish brown, terga narrowly translucent posteriorly; malar area short, about 1/2 as long as width of mandibular base; clypeus with very dense (<0.2 pd), small punctures; facial fovea narrow, maximum width about 3/4 antennal diameter; disc of mesonotum with medium-sized, scattered punctation (1 pd), integument between punctures smooth and shiny, surrounded by denser (0.5 pd) punctation; upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with a few, short, longitudinal carinae, vertical part glabrous; mid femur broadest near base, forming a rightangled edge with a stout ridge ventrally; femur slightly swollen; hind basitarsus slightly broadened apically with prominent, short, reddish bristles on dorso-apical edge; discs of T1 and T2 with fine, dense (0.5–1 pd) punctation, punctures becoming more scattered towards posterior tergal depression; integument between punctures smooth and shiny; shape of S7 as in
Fig. 32
and shape of gonostylus as illustrated (
Fig. 33
).
Holotype
: ơ
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Northern Cape
:
Nieuwoudtville
,
Wild Flower Reserve
,
4.viii.1988
,
V
.
B. Whitehead
,
on
Arctotheca calendula
(SAMC)
.
Paratypes
:
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Northern Cape
: 5ơ same data as
holotype
(SAMC, CMK); 2ơ Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve,
21.vii.1986
, Whitehead, on
Othonna
sp.
(SAMC, CMK); 1ơ Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve,
31.vii.1987
, V.B.Whitehead, on yellow
Senecio
(SAMC)
; 1ơ Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve,
5.viii.1988
, K. Steiner (CMK); 1ơ Nieuwoudtville, Farm Glen Lyon,
700 m
,
30.viii.2003
, M. Kuhlmann, on
Chrysanthemum
sp.
(CMK).
Distribution: This species is only known from the Nieuwoudtville vicinity (
Fig. 43
).
Flower visiting:
Arctotheca calendula
,
Chrysanthemum
sp.
,
Othonna
sp.
,
Senecio
sp. (Asteraceae)
.
Phenology: First record 21
st
July, last record 30
th
August.