Patellapis (Chaetalictus) corallina ( Benoist 1944 )

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, Zootaxa 2099, pp. 1-188 : 161-162

Patellapis (Chaetalictus) corallina ( Benoist 1944)

Halictus corallinus Benoist, 1944: 11–12 .

( Figs. 114a–g )

Diagnosis. The female is characterised by the slightly elongate face, the reticulate scutum and supraclypeal area and the reddish metasomal terga T1–T4. The male is unknown.

Description

Female. Bl = 5,8mm. General habitus ( Fig. 114e ). Head. L = 1,8mm; W = 1,7mm. Head slightly wider than long; face slightly elongate ( Fig. 114a ). Integument black except mandibles, malar area and lower part of clypeus partly reddish to reddish-brown. Face predominantly shiny and with loose, greyish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area strongly convex in profile. Clypeus sparsely punctate; surface shiny. Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Supraclypeal area conspicuously broad and long with well separated small punctures; surface finely and completely reticulate. Paraocular area strongly and densely punctate; surface extensively and strongly sculptured. Antennae brownish-black. Mesosoma. L = 1,3mm; W (ITS) = 1,3mm. Integument black. Scutum dull; surface strongly and completely reticulate; disc densely punctate (i = d) ( Fig. 114b ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 114c . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with mostly greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 114c ; propodeum and marginal region of posterior truncation slightly shiny; surface completely reticulate.

Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish-black. Vestiture mostly greyish. Ts strongly serrate, with about 4–5 broad, long oblique projections ( Fig. 114f ). Bp as illustrated in Fig. 114g . Metasoma. L = 3,0mm; W = 1,6mm. Integument mostly reddish to reddish-brown; margins broadly translucent. Metasomal terga without apical hair bands. Prepygidial fimbria pallid brownish. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 114d .

Male. Unknown.

Type material (1 specimen). Holotype, female, Cameroon: Mont Cameroun, 1300–1500m, versant S–E (white label), Museum Paris, P. Lepesme, R. Paulian, A. Villiers, Cameroun 1939 (blue label) , Holotype (red label), Halictus corallinus, Benoist , Holotype ♀, A. Pauly 1986 (handwritten white label), A. Pauly dt 2007, Patellapis (Chaetalictus) corallina Benoist 1944 comb. nov. (white label), MNHN .

Distribution ( Fig. 115 ). The species is only known from the type locality in Cameroon.

Floral visitation. Unknown.

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 114. Patellapis (Ch.) corallina, female: a. Head (scale=0,5mm); b. Scutum (scale=0,5mm); c. Scutellum and propodeum (scale=0,5mm); d. Metasomal terga (scale=1mm); e. Body (scale=1mm); f. Inner hind tibial spur (scale=100µm); g. Basitibial plate (scale=100µm).

FIGURE 115. Distributions of P. andrenoides, P. corallina and P. virungae.