Patellapis (Patellapis) reticulata, Timmermann & Kuhlmann, 2009

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, Zootaxa 2099, pp. 1-188 : 73-74

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17863/cam.5647

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC484B04-FFA2-FFAA-1FE0-FECBFAFCF801

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scientific name

Patellapis (Patellapis) reticulata
status

sp. nov.

Patellapis (Patellapis) reticulata sp. n. Timmermann

( Figs. 46a–g View FIGURE 46 ; 47a–h View FIGURE 47 ).

Diagnosis. The females are morphologically characterised by the extensively reticulate supraclypeal area, scutum and propodeum. There is no other species within the subgenus Patellapis s. str. having these morphological characteristics in combination except the females of P. karooensis . The females of both species can be distinguished from one another in the structure and size of the basitibial plate, which is more slender in P. reticulata than in P. karooensis . Further, P. reticulata has the scutum strongly reticulate and the medio–posterior part of basal area of propodeum not depressed, whereas the scutum of P. karooensis is shiny and not sculptured and the medio–posterior part of basal area of propodeum is depressed. The male of P. reticulata is unique within the subgenus Patellapis . It is the only species having the gonostylus simple without dorso-lateral projection in combination with the flagellomeres antennae A4 about three times longer than A3.

Description

Female. Bl = 6,5–6,6mm. General habitus ( Fig. 46e View FIGURE 46 ). Head. L = 1,7–1,8mm; W = 2,0– 2,1mm. Head slightly wider than long ( Fig. 46a View FIGURE 46 ). Integument black except mandibles sometimes partly reddish-brown. Face shiny and with loose, long, greyish to yellowish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Malar area very short, linear. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus and supraclypeal area moderately strongly and densely punctate (i = 1,0–1,5d); surface completely reticulate. Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Paraocular area slightly dull; coarsely and densely punctate; surface extensively sculptured. Antennae blackish-brown. Mesosoma. L = 1,3–1,4mm; W (ITS) = 1,5–1,6mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; disc strongly and densely punctate (i = 1,0–1,5d); surface extensively reticulate ( Fig. 46b View FIGURE 46 ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 46c View FIGURE 46 . Scutum, scutellum and metanotum with brownish, erect hairs; mesepisternum and propodeum with greyish to yellowish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 46c View FIGURE 46 ; propodeum slightly dull, completely reticulate and with only a few, well separated, minute punctures. Marginal region of posterior truncation slightly dull, completely reticulate. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument blackish-brown. Vestiture yellowish to brownish. Ts finely serrate, with about 10, oblique projections ( Fig. 46f View FIGURE 46 ). Bp slender and pointed at apex ( Fig. 46g View FIGURE 46 ). Metasoma. L = 3,6–3,7mm; W = 2,1–2,2mm. Integument blackish-brown except the margins of T brownish to pallid brownish; margins partly translucent. T1–T4 with weak, inconspicuous, greyish, apical hair bands; the bands mostly present laterally. Prepygidial fimbria brownish ( Fig. 46d View FIGURE 46 ).

Male. Bl = 5,7–6,2mm. General habitus ( Fig. 47e View FIGURE 47 ). Head. L = 1,8–2,0mm; W = 1,9–2,0mm. Head about as wide as long ( Fig. 47a View FIGURE 47 ). Integument black except mandibles partly reddish. Clypeus, supraclypeal area, paraocular area and vertex with loose, greyish, erect hairs; clypeus, supraclypeal area and lower half of paraocular area entirely covered with appressed, white hairs. Mandibles simple. Malar area very short, linear. Antennae brownish-black. Flagellomeres knotty. A4 about 3,0 times longer than A3. Mesosoma. L = 1,1–1,3mm; W (ITS) = 1,4–1,5mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; disc strongly and densely punctate (i = 1,0–1,5d); surface extensively reticulate. Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 47b View FIGURE 47 . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with long, greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 47b View FIGURE 47 ; propodeum shiny, with a few, well separated punctures; surface extensively sculptured. Marginal region of posterior truncation shiny and reticulate. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish-black. Vestiture greyish. Metasoma. L = 3,2–3,6mm; W = 1,2–1,8mm. Integument blackish brown except the margins of T brownish to pallid brownish; margins extensively translucent ( Fig. 47c View FIGURE 47 ). Apical plate broad and pointed to truncate apically. Posterior margin of S4 with a dense row of erect bristles. S5 with weak, fan–shaped, hair patches ( Fig. 47d View FIGURE 47 ). S7 and S8 as illustrated in Fig. 47h View FIGURE 47 . Genitalia. Genitalia as illustrated in Fig. 47f–g View FIGURE 47 ; gonocoxa dull and gonostylus simple, without a dorso-lateral projection.

Type material ( 11 specimens). Holotype, female, South Africa, Northern Cape, 15 km NW Nieuwoudtville, 800m N Farm Engelsepunt, Fynbos, Sonst. , 29.viii.2003, leg. K. Timmermann, SANC.

Paratypes: 7♀, 3♂. South Africa. Western Cape : 1♀, near Peerboomskloof Pass in Ceres Karoo , 24.ix.2001, leg. C.D. Eardley, SANC ; 1♀, Holfontein , 20 km S Clanwilliam, 21.vi.1984, leg. V . B. Whitehead , SAM – HYM – B009654 , SAMC ; 2♀, 3♂, 5 km W Graafwater , 21.vi.1984, leg. V . B. Whitehead , SAM – HYM – B009656 , SAMC ; Northern Cape: 1♀, 15 km NW Nieuwoudtville, near farm Engelsepunt , fynbos, 13.ix.2003, leg. K. Timmermann, KTPC ; 2♀, 15 km NW Nieuwoudtville, 800m N farm Engelsepunt , fynbos, 29.viii.2003, leg. K. Timmermann, KTPC .

Additional material (2 specimens). 2♀. South Africa, Western Cape : 1♀, Worcester, ix.1928, leg. R . E. Turner, BMNH ; 1♀, idem., ix.–x.1931, BMNH .

Etymology. Named after the extensively reticulate supraclypeal area.

Distribution ( Fig. 48 View FIGURE 48 ). Records exist only from the winter rainfall area.

Floral visitation. Unknown.

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). vi–x.

Remarks. This species is treated as Patellapis new species 6 in Timmermann and Kuhlmann (2008b).

SANC

Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

SAM

South African Museum

SAMC

Iziko Museums of Cape Town

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Patellapis

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