Leioproctus (Alokocolletes) sequax, Maynard, 2013

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 : 63

Leioproctus (Alokocolletes) sequax sp.n

Types

Leioproctus (Alokocolletes) sequax — Queensland: holotype ♀, 8 miles (12.8 k) NE Windorah, 18.viii.1968, J.C. & T.F. Houston off Calandrinia balonensis blossom ( QM); paratypes, 3♀, same data as holotype ( QM) .

Additional material examined: 7♀ Queensland: 8 miles (12.8 k) NE Windorah. Western Australia: 30 miles (48 k) SE Roebourne. Northern Territory: Plenty Hwy 268 k ENE Alice Springs; 47 k WSW Finke; Arthur Creek , 209 k WSW Urandangi; Amadeus Basin .

Months collected: August, September, October.

Floral visitations: Amaranthaceae : Ptilotus ; Araliaceae : Trachymene glaucifolia ; Fabaceae : Kennedia prorepens , Psoralea patens ; Portulacaceae : Calandrinia balonensis .

Female — Length ca 9 mm. Head— Hair pale brown, sparse; frons and clypeus with moderately dense, long, white, short-branched hair; paraocular with similar hair to frons but much denser; lower clypeal margin medially protuberant; labrum, basal area depressed medially with strong ridge separating apical area, apical margin fringes with long, thick setae, mandibles slender, apex of pollex not free, gena as wide as eye when head viewed laterally; ocelloccipital area flat; facial fovea vaguely impressed; frons moderate size, dense to very dense punctures with smooth interspaces; antennal sockets shallowly depressed; scape reaching median ocellus or beyond; F1 as long as or longer than the following 2.5 segments, F2–3 length less than width; F4–11 length about equal to width; supraclypeal area raised; epistomal suture distinct; inner eye margins parallel; palps reaching beyond apex of extended glossa, segments well sclerotized and subequal in length; malar space absent. Mesosoma — Hair moderately dense, fine, white; propodeal triangle surface coriaceous with fine transverse lines basally; legs slightly swollen; fore tibial spur with a few small teeth on apex of velum; hind basitibial plate about 0.2 length of tibia, carinate marginally with thick, dense, flattened, simple hair; hair of hind tibial scopa open monopodally branched; hind basitarsus with weak posterior fringe; inner hind tibial spur with four; coarse well separated teeth; scutum and scutellum with moderately dense to very dense small punctures with granular interspaces; propodeal triangle broad rounded onto posterior vertical area carina separating basal area from ventral area absent; wings with membrane slightly darkened; covered in dense, dark microtrichia; stigma slender, parallel sided, more 0.5 length of costal margin of marginal cell; marginal cell elongate, apex of marginal cell strongly divergent from costal margin; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell basally; jugal lobe of hind wing reaching beyond cu-a. Metasoma— Lateral furrows on T3–4 extend half length of terga; brown to black with dense, short, fine hair; base of T1 with longer hair, apical margins T1–4 with dense, apical fringe, mostly broadly interrupted medially; caudal fimbria coarse, black; pygidial plate moderately wide, granular basally, smooth apically; apical margin rounded; sternal hair sparse, white, mostly simple; sting flattened laterally. Male — Unknown.