Patellapis (Patellapis) leonis (Cockerell 1940)

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Patellapis (Patellapis) leonis (Cockerell 1940)

Halictus leonis Cockerell, 1940a: 90–91 .

( Figs. 40a–g )

Diagnosis. The most similar species is P. longifacies . Both are characterised by the elongate face. They can be easily distinguished by the size and structure of the basitibial plate, which is broader and larger in P. longifacies than in P.leonis . The male of P. leonis is unknown.

Description

Female. Bl = 6,3mm. General habitus ( Fig. 40e ). Head. L = 2,0mm; W = 2,0mm. Head as long as wide; face elongate ( Fig. 40a ). Integument black except mandibles, clypeus, supraclypeal area and paraocular area partly blackish-brown. Face predominantly polished and with loose, greyish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus finely and sparsely punctate; surface shiny. Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Supraclypeal area with a few, small punctures; punctures well separated; surface shiny. Paraocular area moderately strongly and densely punctate; surface partly sculptured; rather shiny. Antennae brownish-black. Mesosoma. L = 1,5mm; W (ITS) = 1,7mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; disc moderately strongly and densely punctate (i = d) ( Fig. 40b ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 40c .

Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 40c ; propodeum shiny, with minute punctures well separated; surface completely sculptured. Marginal region of posterior truncation shiny and completely reticulate. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish. Vestiture greyish. Ts moderately strongly serrate, with 5–6 oblique projections ( Fig. 40f ). Bp narrow; pointed apically ( Fig. 40g ). Metasoma. L = 3,4mm; W = 2,3mm. Integument blackish-brown except the margins of T pallid brownish and extensively translucent. Weak apical hair bands on T2–T3 (those on T1 only present laterally). Prepygidial fimbria yellowish-brown. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 40d .

Male. Unknown.

Type material ( 1 specimen). Holotype, female, S. Africa. Cape Province, Lion Head Sea Point, 12.xii.1931, T. Ogilvie (handwritten white label), Type (red-white label), Halictus leonis Ckll Type (handwritten white label), B.M. TYPE HYM. 17a.2592 (white label), BMNH.

Distribution ( Fig. 43 ). Only known from Lions Head in Cape Town.

Floral visitation. Unknown.

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). xii.

Figures

FIGURE 40. Patellapis (P.) leonis, female: a. Head (scale=1mm); b. Scutum (scale=1mm); 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 43. Distributions of P. karooensis, P.leonis, P. longifacies and P. mandela.