Paracolletes erythrurus Cockerell, 1914a , p. 5
Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) erythrurus
Revision of the Australian Bee Genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini)
Batley, Michael
Records of the Australian Museum
2012
Rec. Aust. Mus.
2012-05-23
64
1
1
50
7CRMJ
(Cockerell)
Cockerell
1914
[248,711,154,181]
Insecta
Colletidae
Trichocolletes
Animalia
Hymenoptera
19
19
Arthropoda
species
erythrurus
Figs 56, 94
Paracolletes erythrurus Cockerell, 1914a, p. 5. Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) erythrurus.— Michener, 1965, p. 79.
Specimens examined. The holotype ♀, in BMNH (Hym 17.a.456) and the following. Western Australia: ♀, 91 kmNE Albany ( 34.4781°S 118.6283°E), 23 Oct. 2009, M. Batley,AM (K.316520); ♀, 5–8 kmENE Augusta, 27 Oct. 1982, C.A. Howard & T. F.Houston, on flowers of Viminaria, WAM(13957); ♂, Bannister, WAM (13962); ♀, Beekeepers Reserve Eneabba-Leeman- Jurien area, M. Lyons, WAM (13924); 2♂, Bickley, Perth, 24 Sep. 1985, R. Peakall, on flowers of Kennedia concinna, WAM(13946–47); ♀, N Broke Inlet, 26 Oct. 1982, C. A. Howard & T. F. Houston, on flowers of Viminaria, WAM(13958); ♀, Brookton Hwy Darling Range E of Karragullen, 17 Sep. 1978, T. F. Houston, on flowers of Kennedia concinna, WAM(13954); ♀, 1 kmNE Bullsbrook East, 11 Oct. 1980, C. A. Howard & T. F. Houston, on flowers of Gastrolobium, WAM(13925); ♂, 9♀, Calgardup, WAM (13938–45, 63–64); ♀, Cannington, 16 Oct. 1954, R. P. McMillan, WAM (13961); 7♂, ♀, Deanmill, 5 Oct. 1982, R. P. McMillan, WAM (13930–37); ♂, Denmark, Oct., L. J. Newman, WAA (80824); ♀, Dryandra, 2 Nov. 1992, M. R. Williams, WAM (13917); ♂, 5♀, DryandraState Forest 27 kmNW Narrogin, 10 Dec. 1991, T. F. Houston, on flowers of Gastrolobium parviflorum& Bossaeia, WAM(13911–16); 2♂, Gooseberry Hill 19 kmE Perth, 28 Aug. 1993, T. F. Houston, patrolling flowers of Daviesia, WAM(13921–22); 3♂, 3♀, Gooseberry Hill ( 31.9528°S 116.0486°E), 16 Sep. 2003& 24 Sep. 2004, M. Batley, ex Chorizema dicksonii, Kennedia coccinea& Hardenbergia comptoniana, AM(K.316514–19); 11♂, 3♀, Kalgan- Manypeaks NE Albany, 18 Oct. 1974, C. A. & T. F. Houston, on flowers of Chorizema, SAM(32-024546–59); ♀, King George Sound, AM (K.48370); 3♂, 2♀, Koondoola Cons.Area 12 kmN Perth, 22 Sep. 2000, T. F. Houston, on flowers of Gompholobium confertum, WAM(27801–05); ♂, 4♀, Margaret R., WAM (13950-52,65–66); 2♀, 7.5 kmSW Margaret River, 18 Nov. 1986, T. F. Houston, on flowers of Viminaria, WAM(13948–49); ♀, Meelup Beach road 27 kmW Busselton, 25 Oct. 1992, T. F. Houston, on flowers of book-leaf poison, WAM (13923); ♂, Murdoch 13 kmS Perth, 13 Oct. 1980, T. F. Houston, on flowers of Daviesia polyphylla, WAM(13926); ♂, 17.3 kmS Mogumber, 11 Sep.1988, R. P. McMillan, on flowers of Gastrolobium bennettsianum, WAM(13959); ♀, 14 kmNW Narrogin ( 32.8761°S 117.0425°E), 9 Oct. 2009, M. Batley, ex Gastrolobiumsp., AM (K.316521); ♂, 50mil N Ravensthorpe, 25 Aug. 1964, G. Lallfitz, WAM (13956); ♀, 63 kmE Ravensthorpe ( 33.6753°S 120.6928°E), 8 Oct. 2009, M. Batley, AM; ♂, 5 kmS Pemberton, 26 Sep. 1987, D. K. McAlpine, AM (K.316665); ♂, Point Heron Area, 2 Oct. 1977, A. M. & M. J. Douglas, WAM (13955); ♂, Porongurup, 11 Oct. 1925, K. A. Spenser, WAM (13960); 2♂, ♀, Stirling Range, 17 Oct. 1974, C. A. & T. F. Houston, on flowers of Daviesia, SAM(32-024544–45,67); ♂, 2♀, Stirling Ranges NP,SE Camel Lake, 2 Oct.1995, J. Cane & L. Kervin, ex Gastrolobium spinosum& Bossaiea linophylla, WAM(32097,99,101); ♂, Swan River, Sep., WAA (80834); ♀, Adjacent E side of Walyunga Nat. Park 35 kmNE Perth, 9 Oct. 1978, T. F. Houston, on flowers of Gastrolobium calycinum, WAM(13953); ♂, 2♀, c. 10 kmNE Wannamal RS, 10 Sep. 1983, C.A. & T. F. Houston, on flowers of Gastrolobium, WAM(13918–20); ♂, Williams, 21 Oct. 1991, S.R Patterson, WAM (18464); ♂, Yallingup, nr Cape Naturaliste, 14 Sep.–31 Oct. 1913, R. E. Turner, BM. Diagnosis Length c. 12 mm; eyes not hairy; metasoma red-brown; metasomal bands absent or indistinct. Male hind legs unmodified; female with a polished, impunctate area below and laterad of antennal sockets. Descriptions Male (K.316519).— Headwidth 3.9 mm, body length 11.9 mm. Relative dimensions: HW 50, HL 36, UID 33, UFW 33, LID 30, DMA 29, HVO 4, WOC 15, MOD 4, OOD 9, IAD 9, ASD 3, AOD9, ML 18, BMW 7, MSL 2.5, SL 15, SW 4, FL c. 54.— Eyesnot hairy; face broad, inner orbits ventrally divergent; malar space c. 0.45× basal width mandible; middle flagellomeres c. 1.6 ×as long as wide, weakly crenulate. Legs slender; hind tarsus 1.1× as long as hind tibia; hind basitarsus 6.0× as long as wide; basitibial area indistinct. Genital capsule similar to that for T. orientalis n.sp.(Fig. 37); S7 with narrow, triangular lateral lobes fused with basal teeth, posterior projections and ligulate processes long and thin ( Fig. 56).—Integument of head and mesosoma black except labrum, mandible basally, white or milky amber; apical half clypeus pale amber; scape, tibiae, tarsi and distal ends of femora, orange-brown; flagellum ventrally and large patch on posterior half of mid tibia, brown. Metasoma orange-brown with irregular dark brown brown markings on lateral margins all terga, glandular area on lateral margins T2, black.— Scutumdull with strong pit-reticulation obscuring punctures.— Facewith dense, long, finely-branched, orange hair, stiffly erect on clypeus. Scutumwith open, long, finely-branched, orange hair; fore basitarsus with short brush; trochanters with long, white hair; T1,2 with sparse, long, pale orange hair; T3–7 with a mixture of adpressed and semi-erect dark brown hair. Female (AM K.316518).— Headwidth 4.5 mm, body length 12.2 mm. Relative dimensions: HW 50, HL 36, UID 31, UFW 32, LID 31, DMA 29, HVO 3, WOC 14, MOD 4, OOD 8, IAD 8, ASD 3, AOD9, ML 19, BMW 6, MSL 2, SL 16, SW 3, FL c. 30.— Eyesnot hairy; face broad, inner orbits slightly divergent ventrally; length malar space c. 0.2× basal width mandible; clypeus uniformly convex; supraclypeal area convex, protruberant; middle flagellomeres c. 1.1× as long as wide; inner hind tibial spur with c. 9 teeth; tarsal claws simple; pygidial plate entire, medial longitudinal elevation narrow.—Integument of head and mesosoma black except labrum, ventral rim of clypeus, mandible medially, tarsi, tibiae and apices of femora, orange-brown; tibiae with areas of brown posteriorly. Metasoma orange-brown, occasionally with darker suffusions; glandular area on lateral margin T2 black or dark brown.— Clypeusbasally weakly reticulate with close, large punctures, apically sparsely punctured, polished; supraclypeal area with contiguous punctures coalescing to form irregular grooves; paraocular area densely punctate except impunctate and polished below and laterad of antennal socket. Scutumdull with strong pit-reticulation.— Facewith off-white hair, brown-tipped near ocelli, dense in paraocular areas and on frons, sparse on clypeus. Scutumwith close, short, plumose, pale brown hair; hind tibial scopa pale brown; T2–5 openly covered with simple, short, adpressed, dark brown hair; prepygidial fimbria pale brown.
Remarks. This species is referred to as F261/M 232 in Houston (2000).
Distribution. Southwestern Australia(AW, ESP, JF, MAL, WAR, SWA) ( Fig. 94).