Lamprocolletes Smith, 1853: 10

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 : 81-82

Lamprocolletes Smith, 1853: 10

Nodocolletes Rayment, 1931a: 164 ; 1931b: 128–129; 1935: 206, 207.

Leioproctus (Nodocolletes) (Rayment) . Michener, 1965: 61.

Type species— Andrena chalybeata Erichson, 1842 by designation of Cockerell, 1905a: 345; Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) Michener 2007: 155 .

Description — Large, black or dark metallic blue, strongly punctate colletid bees. Head— Ocelloccipital area flat; facial fovea not impressed, vaguely indicated by change in surface texture or colour; frons flat; antennal sockets strongly depressed; scape reaching median ocellus; male F1,–2 length less than width, F4–11 length greater than width; supraclypeal area strongly raised, epistomal suture clearly defined; malar space short, inner eye margin converging below antennal sockets except at upper where they converge slightly; surface sculpture of dense, large clearly defined punctures; punctures on clypeus larger than those on frons. Mesosoma — Surface sculpture generally as for frons, posteriomedially impunctate; metanotum with large, protuberance; propodeal triangle vertical. Wings with pterostigma long, parallel sided; apex of marginal cell strongly divergent from costa; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell basal to middle. Metasoma— Strongly punctate; female sterna with long hair most of which is branched.

Key to species of Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes)

1 Protuberance on metanotum bilobed...................... Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) chalybeatus ( Erichson, 1842)

– Protuberance on metanotum not bilobed................................................................... 2

2 Protuberance on metanotum very long and slender............. .. Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) pacificus Michener, 1965

– Protuberance on metanotum large and thick.................. Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) dentiger (Cockerell, 1910)