Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani Houston, 1991

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 : 44

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C099D583-4AD5-48EB-8C20-8B6EDE58801D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6509056

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/732D878C-E40E-6E54-4F98-FBABFE1EF80C

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scientific name

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani Houston, 1991
status

 

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Types

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani — Western Australia: holotype ♂, Gnangara [State Forest], ca 20 k NNE Perth, 11.vi.1982, R.P. McMillan, off Astroloma xerophyllum blossom (WAM 87/1452) [not seen]; paratypes, 1♀, 1♂, Melaleuca Park , 11 k NE Wanneroo, 7.viii.1989, T.F. Houston off Astroloma xerophyllum and Andersonia heterophylla blossom (QM).

Collection months: June, August.

Floral visitations: Ericaceae : Astroloma xerophyllum , Andersonia heterophylla .

Female — Length ca 12 mm; head and mesosoma black, metasoma vaguely metallic; hair long, fine, whitish.

Head— Flagellum simple, F1–11 length about equal to width; clypeus strongly protuberant; area around subantennal suture and tentorial pit glabrous; malar space glabrous length nearly 3 x width of base of mandible; epistomal suture vague; labrum length 0.75 x width, contrastingly yellow; mandibles broad, apical fringe of glossa long; maxillary palps apical 2 segments shorter than basal four, basal four subequal in length, maxillary palps reaching apex of extended glossa; gena about as wide as eye when head viewed laterally; hair of clypeus moderately dense, branched. Mesosoma —Hair of scutum and scutellum white interspersed with black; fore basitarsus with long, thick spines ventrally and stiff hairs dorsally curving anteriorly, forming a corbicula-like area anteriorly; claws with large, basal inner ramus. Metasoma T2–4 with hair long, fine moderately dense; female prepygidial fimbria coarse, black; female pygidial plate broad, flat emarginate apically; female sternal hair long, moderately dense with few branches. Male — As for female except as follows: Length ca 9 mm. Head —Flagellar segments bipectinate; gena wider than eye, when head viewed laterally. Mesosoma — Legs simple, fore tibial spur with malus extended beyond velum; fore basitarsus not spinose. Metasoma— T7 with a narrow, median hairless area; S7 with one pair of simple lateral lobes covered apically with short, thick spines; for details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 48–50.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Leioproctus

Loc

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani Houston, 1991

Maynard, Glynn Vivian 2013
2013
Loc

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani * Houston 1991: 88

Houston, T. F. 1991: 88
1991
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