Colletes schultzei Friese, 1909

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Colletes schultzei Friese, 1909

Figs 26, 27 , 43

Colletes schultzei: Friese 1909: 122 . Type locality: South Africa, Steinkopf .

Diagnosis: Male can be most accurately identified by the unique shape of S7 ( Fig. 26 ).

Description:

Male.

Length 10–11 mm.

Vestiture: Face greyish white to white; mesonotum with long, greyish white to yellowish white hairs; mesosomal sides and legs white; scutellum and metanotum with long, yellowish to white hairs; hind femur basoventrally with a dense row of brown, erect hairs of equal length on longitudinal axis; T1 densely covered with long, erect, yellowish white hairs; disc of T2–T3 with successively shorter concolorous hairs; discs of T4–T6 with long, erect, blackish hairs; narrow and very sparse white posterior tergal fringes on T1–T4; S1–S5 with short, sparse fringes, laterally much broader than medially, discs with few depressed white hairs.

Integument: Completely black, except antenna yellowish brown ventrally, legs and tarsi partly reddish brown and terga narrowly translucent posteriorly; malar area long, about 1–1.2× as long as width of mandibular base; clypeus with very dense, small punctures (<0.2 pd); facial fovea narrow, maximum width about antennal diameter; disc of mesonotum with fine, very scattered punctation (4–5 pd), integument between punctures smooth and shiny, surrounded by only relatively dense punctation (0.5–1 pd); upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short longitudinal carinae, vertical part glabrous; mid and hind femora slightly swollen; hind basitarsus slightly curved and broadened apically with prominent, long, reddish bristles on dorsal apical edge; integument of T1 with fine, dense (0.5–1 pd) punctation, punctures shallower and indistinct on posterior tergal depression; T2 with very fine, dense (<0.5 pd) punctures, integument between punctation smooth and shiny; S6 basolaterally with a short, posterior directed spine; shape of S7 as illustrated ( Fig. 26 ) and shape of gonostylus as in Fig. 27 .

Female. Unknown.

Type material examined: Colletes schultzei , ơ lectotype: ‘Kl. Namaland, Steinkopf, L. Schultze S., Colletes schultzei 1908 Friese det., Type, Coll. Friese’, 2ơ paralectotypes: same data as lectotype (all ZMHB).

Additional material examined: 22ơ. SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: 1ơ Goegap Nat. Res. , 7.ix.1992, F.W. & S.K. Gess, on Drosanthemum hispidum (CMK) ; Western Cape:1ơ Vanrhynsdorp , vii–viii.1927, G. v. Son ( TMSA) ; 1ơ Vanrhynsdorp , 15.viii.2003, K. Timmermann ( CMK) ; Eastern Cape: 1ơ Willowmore , 1.viii.1916, Dr Brauns ( SAMC) ; 2ơ Willowmore , 20.viii.1909, Dr Brauns ( TMSA) ; 5ơ 30.vii.1920, 3ơ 20.viii.1917, 2ơ 15.viii.1902, 1ơ 18.viii.1906, 2ơ 5.viii.1920, 1ơ 6.ix.1919, 1ơ 19.ix.1904, 1ơ 15.ix.1902, idem ( CMK) .

Distribution: Only known by few individuals from Namaqualand and Willowmore ( Fig. 43 ).

Flower visiting: Drosanthemum hispidum (Aizoaceae) .

Phenology: First record 30 th July, last record 19 th September.

Figures

Figs 18–27. Shapes of male S7 and gonostylus: (18, 19) C. albohirtus; (20, 21) C. aureocinctus; (22, 23) C. fasciatus; (24, 25) C. laticaudus; (26, 27) C. schultzei. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 43. Distribution of C. nieuwoudtvillei, C. obscurus, C. schultzei, C. stellatus, C. testaceipes, C. wathmoughi and C. zygophyllum.