Patellapis (Patellapis) hakkiesdraadi, Timmermann & Kuhlmann, 2009

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, Zootaxa 2099, pp. 1-188 : 29-32

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5318922

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC484B04-FFF6-FFFC-1FE0-F851FA0AFBDD

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Patellapis (Patellapis) hakkiesdraadi
status

sp. nov.

Patellapis (Patellapis) hakkiesdraadi sp. n. Timmermann

( Figs. 14a–g View FIGURE 14 ; 15a–h View FIGURE 15 )

Diagnosis. The females have the head wider than long, which separate them from females of P. doleritica . Further, the surface of the paraocular area is slightly dull and sculptured in P. hakkiesdraadi , whereas extensively shiny and without sculpturing in P. doleritica . P. hakkiesdraadi can be easily distinguished from P. richtersveldi , P. impunctata and P. cincticauda by having the scutum and metasomal terga T1–T2 finely and densely punctate and the surface of scutum rather dull than shiny. The males of P. hakkiesdraadi are characterised by a small and angulate apical plate and the head wider than long. In P. doleritica the head is about as wide as long and the apical plate is broad and rounded apically. Both sexes of P. montagui and P. pseudomontagui differ from P. hakkiesdraadi in having the marginal zones of T1–T3 conspicuously more densely punctuate than the rest of the terga. The males of P. richtersveldi , P. impunctata , and P. cincticauda are unknown.

Description

Female. Bl = 7,8–7,9mm. General habitus ( Fig. 14e View FIGURE 14 ). Head. L = 2,0– 2,1mm; W = 2,5–2,6mm. Head wider than long ( Fig. 14a View FIGURE 14 ). Integument black except mandibles sometimes partly reddish-brown. Face shiny (except paraocular area slightly dull) and with loose, long, yellowish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus strongly and densely punctate (i = d), except small shiny middle stripe without punctures. Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Supraclypeal area strongly and densely punctate (i = d) (except lower part usually without punctures); surface finely sculptured. Paraocular area strongly and densely punctate; surface strongly sculptured. Antennae brownish-black. Mesosoma. L = 1,7–1,8mm; W (ITS) = 2,1–2,2mm. Integument black. Scutum slightly dull; disc densely and finely punctate (i = d); surface extensively sculptured ( Fig. 14b View FIGURE 14 ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 14c View FIGURE 14 . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with yellowish to brownish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 14c View FIGURE 14 ; propodeum and marginal region of posterior truncation slightly dull, surface finely reticulate. Wings. Slightly fuscous. Legs. Integument mostly brownish. Vestiture yellowish to brownish. Ts finely serrate ( Fig. 14f View FIGURE 14 ). Bp broad; broadly rounded apically ( Fig. 14g View FIGURE 14 ). Metasoma. L = 4,3–4,4mm; W = 3,0– 3,1mm. Integument black except the margins of T pallid brownish (usually T1–T2); margins partly translucent. T1–T4 with greyish apical hair bands; the bands on T1–T2 mostly present laterally. Prepygidial fimbria yellowish to brownish ( Fig. 14d View FIGURE 14 ).

Male. Bl = 7,8–7,9mm. General habitus ( Fig. 15e View FIGURE 15 ). Head. L = 1,8–1,9mm; W = 2,2–2,3mm. Head wider than long. Integument black. Clypeus, supraclypeal area and paraocular area with loose, greyish, erect hairs; vertex with greyish to yellowish erect hairs; clypeus, supraclypeal area and lower half of paraocular area entirely covered with appressed, white hairs. Mandibles simple. Antennae brownish-black. Flagellomeres knotty. A4 about 2,5 times longer than A3. Mesosoma. L = 1,5–1,6mm; W (ITS) = 1,7–1,8mm. Integument black. Scutum finely and densely punctate (i = d); surface sculptured anteriorly ( Fig. 15a View FIGURE 15 ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 15b View FIGURE 15 . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with long, greyish to yellowish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 15b View FIGURE 15 ; propodeum and marginal region of posterior truncation slightly dull and strongly sculptured. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish-black. Vestiture greyish. Metasoma. L = 4,7–4,8mm; W = 2,0– 2,1mm. Integument black except the margins of T pallid brownish (usually T1–T2); margins partly translucent. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 15c View FIGURE 15 . Apical plate small and angulate apically. Posterior margin of S4 with a dense row of coarse, erect bristles. S5 with fan–shaped hair patches laterally ( Fig. 15d View FIGURE 15 ). S7 and S8 as illustrated in Fig. 15f View FIGURE 15 . Genitalia. Genitalia as illustrated in Fig. 15g –h View FIGURE 15 ; gonocoxa shiny and gonostylus simple, without a dorso-lateral projection.

Type material ( 29 specimens). Holotype, male, South Africa, Northern Cape, Nieuwoudtville Wild Flower Reserve , S 31°22'25" / E19°08'46", 770m, 16.viii.2007, leg. K. Timmermann, SANC.

Paratypes: 7♀, 21♂. South Africa. Northern Cape : 2♀, Nieuwoudtville Wild Flower Reserve, Car Park East , 04.x.2006, leg. M. Kuhlmann, KTPC ; 1♀, idem., 26.ix.2006, leg. K. Timmermann, KTPC ; 4♂, idem., 20.viii.2007, leg. K. Timmermann, KTPC , 2♂, Nieuwoudtville Wild Flower Reserve East, 735m, 13.viii.2004, leg. M. Kuhlmann, KTPC ; 3♂, idem., 12.viii.2004, leg. M. Kuhlmann, KTPC ; 1♀, idem., 11.ix.2003, leg. M. Kuhlmann, KTPC ; 1♂, idem., 05.ix.2002, leg. M. Kuhlmann, KTPC ; 6♂, Nieuwoudtville Wild Flower Reserve , dolerite hills, 16.viii.2007, leg. K. Timmermann, KTPC ; 1♀, 1♂, idem., 21.viii.2007, KTPC ; 1♀, idem., 29.viii.2007, KTPC ; 2♂, idem., 10.ix.2007, KTPC ; 2♂, Nieuwoudtville Wild Flower Reserve , 04.viii.1988, leg. V . B. Whitehead , SAM – HYM – B009662 and SAM – HYM –B00966, SAMC ; 1♀, idem., 26.viii.1984, leg. V . B. Whitehead and M. Macpherson , SAM – HYM – B009692 , SAMC .

Etymology. Named after the Afrikaans word “hakkiesdraad” (engl.: barbed wire), resembling the coarse apical bristles on posterior margin of metasomal sternum S4.

Distribution ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 ). Only known from the surroundings of Nieuwoudtville.

Floral visitation. Asteraceae .

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

Remarks. This species is treated as Patellapis new species 13 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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Patellapis

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