Patellapis (Patellapis) impunctata, Timmermann & Kuhlmann, 2009

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, Zootaxa 2099, pp. 1-188 : 32-33

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5483771

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC484B04-FFF5-FFC3-1FE0-FAB3FD78F801

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Patellapis (Patellapis) impunctata
status

sp. nov.

Patellapis (Patellapis) impunctata sp. n. Timmermann

( Figs. 16a–g View FIGURE 16 )

Diagnosis. The female is characterised by the shiny and completely unpunctate margins of T1–T3. In combination with the weakly convex, shiny, and extensively unpunctate scutellum the female of P. impunctata can be easily identify from all other species belonging to this species-group. The male of P. impunctata is unknown.

Description

Female. Bl = 7,1mm. General habitus ( Fig. 16e View FIGURE 16 ). Head. L = 1,9mm; W = 2,2mm. Head slightly wider than long ( Fig. 16a View FIGURE 16 ). Integument black except mandibles and malar areae partly reddish–black. Face shiny and with loose, long, greyish to yellowish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus strongly and moderately densely punctate (i = 1,0–1,5d). Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Supraclypeal area strongly and densely punctate (i = d), except lower part extensively unpunctate. Paraocular area strongly and densely punctate; surface partly sculptured. Mesosoma. L = 1,5mm; W (ITS) = 1,8mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; disc strongly and densely punctate (i = d); surface partly chagreened anteriorly ( Fig. 16b View FIGURE 16 ). Scutellum weakly convex, shiny and with extensively unpunctate areas laterally ( Fig. 16c View FIGURE 16 ). Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with yellowish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 16c View FIGURE 16 ; propodeum shiny, strongly and densely punctate. Marginal region of posterior truncation shiny; surface finely sculptured. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument mostly brownish. Vestiture greyish to brownish. Ts finely serrate ( Fig. 16f View FIGURE 16 ). Bp broad; broadly rounded apically ( Fig. 16g View FIGURE 16 ). Metasoma. L = 4,0mm; W = 2,3mm. Integument brownish to blackish except the margins of T pallid brownish; margins partly translucent. Prepygidial fimbria brownish ( Fig. 16d View FIGURE 16 ).

Male. Unknown.

Type material ( 1 specimen). Holotype, female, South Africa, Western Cape, Holfontein , 20 km S Clanwilliam, 08.viii.1984, leg. V. B. Whitehead (handwritten label), SAM – HYM – B009719 , SAMC.

Etymology. Named after the impunctate margins of metasomal terga T1-T3.

Distribution ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 ). A single record exist from Holfontein in the Western Cape.

Floral visitation. Heliophila spec. (Brassicaceae) .

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). viii.

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

SAM

South African Museum

SAMC

Iziko Museums of Cape Town

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Patellapis

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