Trichocolletes multipectinatus Houston, 1990

Batley, Michael, 2012, Revision of the Australian Bee Genus Trichocolletes Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Paracolletini), Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 64 (1), pp. 1-50 : 30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.64.2012.1589

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:42F22568-9A99-4F96-A422-F020AA558F90

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E93C9B69-467E-5D72-5DFF-FC52FED37DAC

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scientific name

Trichocolletes multipectinatus Houston
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Trichocolletes multipectinatus Houston View in CoL

Fig. 107 View Figs 104–115

Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) multipectinatus Houston, 1990, p. 618 View in CoL .

Diagnosis

Eyes not hairy; proboscis relatively elongate, prementum length at least 3.5× eye width viewed laterally. Female lower clypeus dull, densely punctate; facial hair brown, simple; mid-tibial spur strongly curved with set of stout teeth medially; prepygidial fimbria orange or mostly so. Male with hair of clypeus very erect, of even length, appearing cropped; fore basitarsus expanded ventrally; fore calcar without teeth; T7 with only a medial spot yellow-brown.

Remarks. Exhibits a preference for flowers of Eremophila . Detailed descriptions can be found in Houston (1990). A more recently collected specimen (♀, Wilcannia [31.6742°S 143.4664°E], 28 Sep. 2003, M. Batley, ex Eremophila sturtii, AM [K.316532]) extends the known range eastward.

Distribution. Southern Western Australia (Mt Magnet – Kalgoorlie region), northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia and western New South Wales (COO, DRP, GAW, MUR, YAL) ( Fig. 107 View Figs 104–115 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Trichocolletes

Loc

Trichocolletes multipectinatus Houston

Batley, Michael 2012
2012
Loc

Trichocolletes (Trichocolletes) multipectinatus

Houston, T 1990: 618
1990
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