Scrapter keiskiensis Kuhlmann

Kuhlmann, Michael & Friehs, Thyra, 2020, Nine new species and new records of euryglossiform Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from South Africa, European Journal of Taxonomy 647, pp. 1-33 : 11-13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.647

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:35836E71-F258-41CC-A4F6-37EAE851A016

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3852102

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C74E162D-8699-47CB-837C-B3E5A638CD6C

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:C74E162D-8699-47CB-837C-B3E5A638CD6C

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Scrapter keiskiensis Kuhlmann
status

sp. nov.

Scrapter keiskiensis Kuhlmann sp. nov.

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C74E162D-8699-47CB-837C-B3E5A638CD6C Fig. 5 View Fig

Diagnosis

The female of S. keiskiensis Kuhlmann sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: head distinctly broader than long; supraclypeal area and clypeus sculptured and matt, densely and distinctly punctate ( Fig. 5B View Fig ); scutum densely and relatively coarsely punctate ( Fig. 5C View Fig ); propodeum indistinctly and shallowly carinate ( Fig. 5D View Fig ); stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga black or only slightly translucent dark reddish-brown; terga between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt ( Fig. 5E View Fig ). The male is unknown.

Etymology

Named after the Keiski Mts south of Calvinia where this species was first collected.

Material examined (2 specimens)

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; Roggeveld Mts , 1,5 km S of Farm Allemansdam, Renosterveld ; 31°49′25″ S, 19°59′38″ E; alt. 1285 m a.s.l.; 11 Sep. 2018; MK leg; RCMK.

GoogleMaps

Paratype GoogleMaps

SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; Keiski Mts   GoogleMaps , 3 km E of Farm M´Vera, shale; 31°45′29″ S, 19°54′13″ E; alt. 1190 m a.s.l.; 13 Sep. 2016; MK leg; RCMK.

Description

Female

BODY LENGTH. 5.4 mm.

HEAD. Head distinctly wider than long. Integument black, except part of mandibles dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 5B View Fig ). Clypeus slightly convex with dense (i = d) punctation, apically finer, basally coarser; surface between punctures sculptured and matt ( Fig. 5B View Fig ). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally blackish-brown, ventrally yellowishbrown.

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc between punctures reticulate and matt; disc densely (i = 0.5–1 d) and relatively finely punctate ( Fig. 5C View Fig ). Metanotum slightly shorter than basal area of propodeum, apically with narrow carinate depression ( Fig. 5D View Fig ). Propodeum basally distinct but very finely carinate ( Fig. 5D View Fig ). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 5A View Fig ).

WINGS. Brownish; wing venation and stigma brown.

LEGS. Integument black. Vestiture greyish to yellowish; scopa greyish-white, dorsally brownish.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins on first terga narrow, on other terga broadly black to translucent dark reddish-brown ( Fig. 5E View Fig ). Disc of T1–T2 without hair; following terga with very short but increasingly more and longer hair; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga ( Fig. 5E View Fig ). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae relatively short, yellowish-brown. T1–T4 finely and densely (i = 0.5–1 d) punctate, between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt; T2–T4 with superficially reticulate but shiny apical tergal depression ( Fig. 5E View Fig ).

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

Only known from the northern extension of the Roggeveld Mts and the adjacent Keiski Mts.

Floral hosts

Aizoaceae : Galenia sarcophylla .

Seasonal activity

September.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Scrapter

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