Colletes bokkeveldi, Kuhlmann, 2007
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7667881 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7668083 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8378093A-F80B-4541-FD8B-7A1FD7FFFDFC |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Colletes bokkeveldi |
status |
sp. nov. |
Colletes bokkeveldi View in CoL sp. n.
Figs 12, 13, 40 View Fig
Etymology: Named after the Bokkeveld Plateau around Nieuwoudtville.
Diagnosis: Male is best identified by the unique shape of S7 ( Fig. 12).
Description:
Male.
Length 11–12 mm.
Vestiture:Face greyish white to white with black hairs intermixed along inner eye margins and on vertex; mesonotum with long greyish white to white hairs, with numerous longer black hairs; mesosomal sides and legs white, scutellum and metanotum with long, yellowish white hairs intermixed with few black hairs; T1 densely covered with long, erect greyish white hairs, disc of T2 with shorter, concolorous hairs; discs of T3–T6 with long, erect, blackish hairs; narrow, white posterior tergal hair bands on T1–T5, very narrow on T6; S1–S5 with dense, relatively short, fringes, laterally longer than medially; S6 antero-laterally with an elongate brush of dense, short, red bristles.
Integument: Completely black, except tarsi reddish to yellowish brown and terga narrowly translucent posteriorly; malar area short, about 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 medium-sized, relatively dense punctation (0.5–1 pd), integument between punctures glabrous, surrounded by dense (<0.5 pd) punctation; upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short, longitudinal carinae anteriorly, posteriorly and upper vertical part with irregular transversal carinae, integument between carinae and lower parts superficially shagreened; mid femora broadest near base, forming a right-angled edge with a sharp ridge ventrally; basitarsus of hindleg modified, sightly curved, a bit broadened apically with prominent long, reddish bristles on dorsal apical edge; discs of T1 and T2 with fine shallow, dense (0.5–1 pd) punctation, punctures becoming slightly finer and indistinctly shallow on posterior tergal depression; integument between punctures glabrous; shape of S7 as in Fig. 12 and shape of gonostylus as in Fig. 13.
Female. Unknown.
Holotype: ơ SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve, 21.vii.1986, Whitehead , on Othonna sp. ( SANC).
Paratype: 1ơ SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve , 4.viii.1988, V. B. Whitehead, on Arctotheca calendula (CMK) .
Distribution: Only known from Nieuwoudtville in the Northern Cape ( Fig. 40 View Fig ).
Flower visiting: Arctotheca calendula , Othonna sp. (Asteraceae) .
Phenology: First record 21 st July, last record 4 th August.
SANC |
Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute |
V |
Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium |
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