Scrapter minutissimus, Kuhlmann, 2014

Kuhlmann, Michael, 2014, Revision of the euryglossiform species of the Afrotropical bee genus Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 95, pp. 1-69 : 25-27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.95

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3861153

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6361FA10-BC8E-4EE6-AD60-3EB7169B380E

taxon LSID

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Valdenar

scientific name

Scrapter minutissimus
status

sp. nov.

Scrapter minutissimus sp. nov.

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Fig. 13 View Fig

Diagnosis

The male of S. minutissimus sp. nov. can be separated from other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: antenna unmodified, hind tibia simple and black, hind basitarsus yellowish ( Fig. 13A View Fig ) and S7 without apicolateral lobes ( Fig. 13D View Fig ). The female is unknown.

Etymology

Named for the very small body size of the species.

Type material (3 specimens)

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA: ♂, Leliefontein , slope, yellow + white trap, 30.22520° S, 18.13572° E, 25 Sep. 2003, C. Mayer ( SANC).

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Paratypes

SOUTH AFRICA: 1 ♂, Leliefontein, plain, white trap, 30.23391° S, 18.16476° E, 7 Sep. 2003, C. Mayer (RCMK); 1 ♂, Remhoogte, plain, white trap, 30.23453° S, 18.16499° E, 11 Sep. 2003, C. Mayer (RCMK).

Description

Male

BODY LENGTH. 3.5–4.3 mm.

HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black, except mandible partly dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with long, greyish-white, erect hair. Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally dark brown, ventrally yellowish-brown except last two to three flagellar segments completely or largely brown ( Fig. 13A View Fig ).

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc impunctate, strongly sculptured and matt. Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 13A View Fig ).

WINGS. Slightly yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma brown.

LEGS. Integument black, tarsi, fore tibia anteriorly (posteriorly brown), mid and hind tibia basally and apically yellow to yellowish-brown ( Fig. 13A View Fig ). Hind tibia unmodified. Vestiture greyish-white.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga partly translucent dark reddish-brown ( Fig. 13C View Fig ). Disc of T1 without hair; T2–T4 basally with a broad and dense band of very fine, short, erect, silverish hair covering about half of the terga; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga ( Fig. 13C View Fig ). Terga impunctate, sculptured and matt; terga with narrow and slightly sculptured, shiny apical tergal depression ( Fig. 13C View Fig ). S3–S5 without distinct apical hair fringes.

TERMINALIA. Genitalia ( Fig. 13B View Fig ), S7 ( Fig. 13D View Fig ) and terminal plate of S8 ( Fig. 13E View Fig ) as illustrated.

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

The species is only known from the Kamiesberg Mountains.

Floral hosts

Unknown.

Seasonal activity

September.

SANC

Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Colletidae

SubFamily

Scraptrinae

Genus

Scrapter

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