Patellapis (Chaetalictus) flavorufa ( Cockerell 1937 )

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Patellapis (Chaetalictus) flavorufa ( Cockerell 1937)

Halictus flavorufus Cockerell, 1937: 55 .

( Figs. 117a–g )

Diagnosis. Superficially it resembles other reddish and/or brownish species like P. chubbi , P. pearstonensis or P. cinctifera , but these species differ markedly from P. flavorufa in their largter body size (6,0– 6,5mm). The male is unknown.

Description

Female. Bl = 4,8mm. General habitus ( Fig. 117e ). Head. L = 1,4mm; W = 1,5mm. Head about as long as wide ( Fig. 117a ). Integument black except mandibles largely yellowish and reddish. Clypeus sometimes with yellowish to brownish translucent colour. Face predominately shiny and with loose, long, yellowish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Malar area very short, linear. Clypeus about two times as wide as long; densely and deeply punctate (i <1,0d); punctures large (drop shaped) and conspicuously bigger than those of supraclypeal area. Clypeoantennal distance 0,3mm. Supraclypeal area convex in profile; about two–third wider than long; densely punctate (i = d). Antennal flagellomeres brownish beneath and obscurely brown above. Mesosoma. L = 0,9mm; W (ITS) = 1,0mm. Integument black. Scutum moderately shiny and with a distinct median groove; disc densely punctate (i = d); finely sculptured ( Fig. 117b ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 117b . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum and mesepisternum with yellowish, erect hairs (same colour as head). Propodeum except basal area and propodeal triangle with whitish, apressed, short hairs mixed with yellowish, long, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 117c . Marginal region of posterior truncation shiny, smoothly sculptured. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument mostly brownish. Vestiture greyish to yellowish. Ts coarsely serrate, with only a few (about four) strong projections ( Fig. 117f ); Bp small and angulated apically ( Fig. 117g ). Metasoma. L = 2,6mm; W = 1,4mm. Integument brownish to reddish; T1 with a dark patch at each side; margins of T and S pallid to translucent. T without apical hair bands, but discs of T4 and T5 with a few greyish, appressed hairs. Prepygidial fimbria yellowish. Discs and marginal zones of T1–T3 as illustrated in Fig. 117d .

Male. Unknown.

Type material ( 6 specimens). Holotype, female, South Africa, Free State: Ficksburg , 26.ii.–1.iii.1932, leg. J. Ogilvie (white label), Type label (re–white label), Halictus flavorufus Ckll. Type (handwritten white label), B.M.Type HYM. 17a.800 (white label), Pres. By Imp. Inst. Ent. B.M. 1934–223 (white label), BMNH.

Paratypes: 5♀. South Africa : 1♀, Free State: Ficksburg , 26.ii.–1.iii.1932, leg. A. Mackie, Halictus flavorufus Ckll. Cotype (handwritten white label), BMNH ; 2♀, idem, leg. J. Ogilvie, Pres. By Imp. Inst. Ent. B.M. 1936–30, BMNH ; 1♀, Harrismith , 1.–20.iii.1927, leg. R . E. Turner, Halictus flavorufus Ckll. Cotype (handwritten white label), Brit. Mus. 1927–147, BMNH ; 1♀, idem, ii.1927, Brit. Mus. 1927–117, BMNH .

Additional material (1 specimen): 1♀. South Africa : 1♀, Free State: Harrismith , 1.–20.iii.1927, leg. R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1927–147, BMNH .

Distribution ( Fig. 119 ). Records only exist from two localities in the eastern part of the Free State.

Floral visitation. Unknown.

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). ii–iii.

Figures

FIGURE 117. Patellapis (Ch.) flavorufa, female: a. Head (scale=0,5mm); b. Scutum (scale=0,5mm); c. Scutellum and propodeum (scale=0,5mm); d. Metasomal terga T1-T3 (scale=1mm); e. Body (scale=1mm); f. Inner hind tibial spur (scale=100µm); g. Basitibial plate (scale=100µm).

FIGURE 119. Distributions of P. calviniensis, P.cameroni, P. dispositina, P. flavorufa and P. friesei.