Leioproctus (Leioproctus) litotes, Maynard, 2013

Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, Zootaxa 3715 (1), pp. 1-114 : 42

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) litotes sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) litotes — Queensland: holotype ♂, 8 k W Babinda, 16.xi.1988, K.L.Walker, off Eucalyptus blossom ( MV) ; paratypes, 1♂, Cairns, F.P. Dodd ( SAM) ; 23♂, same data as holotype ( MV, QM) ; 3♂, 17 k S Millaa Millaa , 19.xi.1988, K.L. Walker off Eucalyptus blossom ( MV) .

Collection months: November.

Floral visitations: Myrtaceae : Eucalyptus .

Female — Unknown. Male —Length about 6 mm; small, slender with integument brown except yellow tarsi, relatively hairless. Head— Face covered with semierect, moderately dense, open branched, pale brown hair; frons weakly coriaceous with weak punctures; frontal line week; inner eye margins curved, converging dorsally and ventrally; scape reaching median ocellus; apex of supraclypeal area sharply raised; clypeus slightly elevated, rounded with large, widely spaced puntures; palps extend well beyond apex of glossa; gena equal to or less than width of eye when viewed laterally. Mesosoma — Scutum and scutellum coriaceous with scattered weak punctures; hair fine, brown, open branched, denser on humeral areas and lateral scutellum; basal area of propodeal triangle longer than metanotum minutely roughened with small, scattered weak punctures; metanotum with longer dark hair. Wings, densely hairy; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell slightly basal to middle; pterostigma broad, marginal cell slender and divergent from costa apically. Legs with coxa, trochanter, femur and tibia brown with tarsi contrastingly yellow. Metasoma— Metasoma narrowed basally; hair black, fine, sparse simple except on T1; surface with sparse punctures and granular interspaces. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 42–44.