Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae ( Cockerell, 1921 )

Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, Zootaxa 3715 (1), pp. 1-114 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6509042
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scientific name	Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae ( Cockerell, 1921 )
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Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae ( Cockerell, 1921) View in CoL

Paracolletes boroniae * Cockerell 1921: 92 , 97; 1934: 22.

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae (Cockerell) View in CoL . Michener 1965: 50.

Type

Paracolletes boroniae — Queensland: holotype ♀, Birkdale, Brisbane, 5.ix.1916, H. Hacker off Boronia ledifolia blossom ( QM) .

Collection months: September.

Floral visitations: Rutaceae : Boronia ledifolia .

Female. Length ca 11 mm; green metallic metasoma. Head —Ocelloccipital distance strongly depressed; frontal line depressed on upper fifth; anterior flagellum pale; interspaces on clypeus very narrow, smooth; malar space a little longer than half width of base of mandible. Mesosoma —Scutal and scutellar interspaces smooth to granular; propodeal triangle without transverse carina; first recurrent vein of forewing enters second submarginal cell basal to middle. Scopa black dorsally, pale ventrally; posterior area with hairs with 2 closely opposed rows of branches; inner hind tibial spur with 8 teeth. Metasoma —Pygidial plate obscured. Male.— Unknown.

Notes. This species is known only from the female holotype. The malar space is longer than in other species in this group. It is very similar to L. plumosus and the 2 species key out together. Until more specimens, including males, are available, differentiation of the species will be difficult.