Leioproctus (Minycolletes) wahlenbergiae Michener, 1965

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 : 92-93

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C099D583-4AD5-48EB-8C20-8B6EDE58801D

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/732D878C-E47E-6E23-4F98-F8AEFCDCFD25

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scientific name

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) wahlenbergiae Michener, 1965
status

comb. nov.

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) wahlenbergiae Michener, 1965 View in CoL n.comb.

Leioproctus (Microcolletes) wahlenbergiae * Michener 1965: 56 View in CoL , 250; figs 96–98; Plate 1 (8,9).

Types

Leioproctus (Microcolletes) wahlenbergiae Queensland: holotype ♀, 17 miles (27.2 k) S Dalby, 20.x.1958, C.D. Michener

(ANIC); " allotype " (= paratype), ♂, same data as holotype; paratypes, 1♀, same data as holotype ( QM T.6235); 1♂, Jondaryan, 20.x.1958, C.D. Michener, on Wahlenbergia ( QM T.6234) .

Additional material examined: 2♀, 4♂ Queensland: Helidon; St. Ruth; Kogan .

Months collected: October.

Floral visitations: Campanulaceae : Wahlenbergia .

Female — Length ca 8.5 mm; integument dark brown to black with white hair. Head— Hair fine, moderately sparse, erect; supraclypeal area is polished, apex shallowly raised; epistomal suture distinct; labial palps not reaching apex of extended glossa, basal segment is as long as distal 3, 3 distal segments are as long as wide. Mesosoma — Hair moderately sparse, long, fine; tegulae translucent brown; propodeal triangle coriaceous. First recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell medially. Fore and mid legs with relatively dense, almost appressed hair; hind basitibial plate covered in dense white hair, about 0.25 x length of tibia, apex broadly rounded; hind tibial scopa white; inner hind tibial spur with 7–8 teeth. Metasoma— Hair sparse, short, fine, erect; prepygidial fimbria white, short, dense; pygidial plate rough, broadly rounded apically. Male — As female except as follows: Length ca 7.5 mm. Head— Hair below antennal sockets moderately dense; F1–11 length less than width, F2 and 3 shortest segments. Mesosoma — All legs with moderately dense, long white hairs. Metasoma— T7 bare medially; S5 lacking apical fringe. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 181–183.

QM

Queensland Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Leioproctus

Loc

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) wahlenbergiae Michener, 1965

Maynard, Glynn Vivian 2013
2013
Loc

Leioproctus (Microcolletes) wahlenbergiae * Michener 1965: 56

Michener, C. D. 1965: 56
1965
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