Leioproctus (Colletellus) rubricinctus Leijs

Leijs, Remko, Dorey, James & Hogendoorn, Katja, 2018, Twenty six new species of Leioproctus (Colletellus): Australian Neopasiphaeinae, all but one with two submarginal cells (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, Leioproctus), ZooKeys 811, pp. 109-168 : 148-150

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.811.28924
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scientific name	Leioproctus (Colletellus) rubricinctus Leijs
status	sp. n.

Treatment

Leioproctus (Colletellus) rubricinctus Leijs sp. n. Figure 27 A–H

Specimens examined.

(10♂): Holotype male, Bullfinch (30.5797S; 119.1144E), 07 Sep. 1979, Houston, T.F. et al., WAM 12357;

Paratypes 5 males, WAM 12356,58-61 same locality data as holotype; 3 males, Bullfinch (30.7147S; 119.1144E), 07 Sep. 1979, Houston, T.F. et al., on Thryptomene tuberculata , WAM 12362-4; 1 male, Kadji Kadji (29.1833S; 116.458E), 19 Sep. 2009, Charles Darwin Bush Blitz, Leijs, R., blue pan trap, SAMA 32-033499/RL1526.

Diagnosis.

Ocellocular area dull, densely punctate and irregular roughened, frons irregular pit-reticulate, terga with pregradular depressions, posterior margins broadly orange transparent, F3-9 longer than wide.

Female unknown.

Description.

Male holotype: body length: 4.9 mm; head width: 1.7 mm. Relative head measurements: HW 50, ASD 3.2, AOD 6.0, HL 37, IAD 11.5, LFW 26, OAD 14, OOD 10.9, OW 16, UFW 36, HW/HL 1.3, LFW/UFW 0.7. Relative wing measurements: MSR 1.56, FSR 1.00, SFR 1.04.

Structure: terga anteriorly depressed; BTP rounded; flagellum F1=F2, long, F3-9 longer than wide. S7: dorsal apical lobe absent, ventral apical lobe large, branched setae present on posterior area of dorsal subcentral ridge.

Sculpture: scutum dull, transverse lineo-reticulate and openly punctate; metapostnotum pit-reticulate; T1 lineo-reticulate, T2-3 transverse lineo-reticulate; clypeus dull, finely irregularly roughened; supraclypeal area somewhat shiny, finely irregularly roughened; scape short, dull; ocellocular area dull, densely punctate and irregularly roughened; frons irregular pit-reticulate.

Coloration: terga anteriorly orange, posterior margins transparent orange; labrum orange; mandibles black with red-brown tip.

Pubescence: scutum: short, fine and dispersed, long, off-white; scutellum: short, fine, with dispersed, long off-white; scape with long white pubescence.

Flower records.

Thryptomene tuberculate ( Myrtacea ).

Distribution.

Figure 27H.

Etymology.

The specific epithet refers to the red colouration of the anterior parts of the T2-4.