Goniocolletes dasypus, 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 : 104

Goniocolletes dasypus sp.n.

Types

Goniocolletes dasypus — South Australia: holotype ♂, 28 k NE Wirrulla, 7.iii.1976, C.A. & T.F. Houston, off Eucalyptus blossom ( SAM); paratypes, 4♀, 5♂, same data as holotype .

Additional material examined: 16♀, 14♂ Queensland: 25 k E Bollon. New South Wales: 80 k NE Wentworth. Victoria: 19 k S Murrayville. South Australia: Lake Gilles NP; 40 k W Kimba; 4 miles (6.4 k) E Hartley; 31 k N Pinaroo; 48 k S Pinnaroo; Meningie. Western Australia: Yellowdine; Dedari .

Months collected: January, February, March, December.

Floral visitations: Myrtaceae : Eucalyptus spp. , Angophora floribunda .

Female—Length ca 12 mm; head and mesosoma black; metasoma orange. Head— Facial fovea clearly defined throughout; inner eye margin straight converging below; hair white, sparse on clypeus and supraclypeal area; vertex with small, dense, punctures; extends about 1 ocellar width behind upper eye margin; ocellocular area flat; scape black; supraclypeal area polished medially with a few sparse simple hairs laterally; area strongly raised above frons level, flat; clypeus at same level as supraclypeal level, flat; epistomal suture distinct, straight; mandibles red with black base and tips; malar space narrow, polished, length 0.16 x width; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa; maxillary palps reaching just beyond apex of extended glossa. Mesosoma — Hair white; propodeal triangle smooth basally, polished vertically; short; claws large with inner basal ramus; fore tibial spur with a few teeth; inner hind tibial spur with 7 long, fine teeth; basitibial plate with dense, pale, branched hair, partly obscuring marginal carina. Metasoma— Apical tergal margins translucent, hair bands absent; hair white fine sparse; pygidial plate flat, rough, broadly rounded apically; prepygidial fimbria black; gradulus absent. Male —As for female except as follows: Length ca 11 mm. Head— Hair white; F1–2 length about equal to width; F3–11 length greater than width; mandibles black; labrum black, strongly convex; beard long, white. Mesosoma —Legs black, fore legs yellow anteriorly; fore leg simple, mid femur and tibia and hind femur swollen, mid tibia with apical tuft of hair obscuring spur. Hair of scutum and scutellum long, white to pale yellow. Metasoma— Hair long, fine white, shaggy; hair of S8 protruding; S3–4 with moderate length brown fringes; pygidium clearly defined, polished. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 208–210.