Leioproctus (Leioproctus) nomadiformis ( Cockerell, 1921 )

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) nomadiformis ( Cockerell, 1921)

Paracolletes nomadiformis * Cockerell 1921: 95 ; 1934: 31.

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) nomadiformis (Cockerell) . Michener 1965: 51.

Type

Paracolletes nomadiformis — Queensland: holotype ♂, Kuranda, Dodd ( QM T.2406) .

Additional Material examined: 1♀, Queensland: Mt Lewis—Platypus Scientific area

Collection months: October.

Floral visitations: none recorded.

Female—Length ca 9mm. Head —integument mostly black; face almost flat; frons with dense, small punctures; scape yellowish to pale brown, reaching beyond median ocellus; flagellum pale brown, most segments about wide as long; upper frons with sparse, short, pale yellow hair, area around antennal bases with dense, semierect moderate length, yellow hair; paraocular area as same level as eyes, with dense, yellow, moderate length hair; inner eye margins converging dorsally and ventrally; supraclypeal area integument yellowish, slightly raised, smooth with sparse hirsute punctures, hair fine, moderate length, yellow; clypeus integument yellowish, with sparse hirsute punctures, hair fine, yellow, moderate length; malar space almost non-existent; mandibles with integument mostly yellowish with dark tips; gena width less than width of eye when viewed laterally. Mesosoma — integument mostly black; short, sparse, dense, short pale hair scattered throughout; humeral area and posterior lateral area of scutum, lateral area of scutellum and metanotum with short vervy dense, yellow hair. Legs with tibia and tarsi yellow; inner hind tibial spur with 6 coarse widely spaced teeth; inner hind tibial plate with thick, short simple hair, carinate; hind tibial scopae with medium-length, dense, yellowish, branched hair. Wings with darkened anterior margin; pterostigma large, length about as long as costal margin of costal cell. Metasoma —slender anteriorly, almost hairless dorsally, with long, scopal-like hairs ventrally, wasp-like in coloration, T1 broad, integument broadly yellow apically with 2 patches of dark integument basally; T2–3 broad, integument broadly dark brown basally with narrow, yellow apical margin, no hair bands; T2 narrowest basally, T3 narrowest apically; T4 integument yellow or brownish with narrow, dark sub-basal band, with dense, narrow basal band of short, yellow hair; T5 translucen integument with long, moderately sparse brown, branched prepygidial fimbria; pygidial plate well defined, broad, brownish, rounded apically; S2–5 with broad band of moderately dense, long, branched, brownish hair. Male — Length about 7 mm. Head— Face almost flat; frons flat, minutely roughened; antennae yellow; clypeus translucent yellow, shallowly raised, rounded; malar space short; hair of head including vertex pale, moderate length and density, branched. Mesosoma — Sparse, dense, short pale hair scattered throughout; humeral area of scutum, entire scutellum and metanotum covered in short very dense, pale hair. Legs simple, yellow almost hairless; apex of basitibial plate sharply pointed; hind tibial spurs about equal. Wing membrane clear, first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell medially. Metasoma— Terga with integument dark brown, apical margins broadly translucent yellow. Base of metasoma strongly constricted, first and second segments considerably narrower than third segment. Genitalia and hidden sterna were not available for examination.