Revision of the euryglossiform species of the Afrotropical bee genus Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) Author Kuhlmann, Michael Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK. m.kuhlmann@nhm.ac.uk text European Journal of Taxonomy 2014 2014-09-05 95 1 69 journal article 10.5852/ejt.2014.95 f7eb4ca8-8e77-4882-ae27-320290999cea 2118-9773 3860596 BE14FE18-E9AB-4C5A-B260-BD9C54464A2A Scrapter minutissimus sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 6361FA10-BC8E-4EE6-AD60-3EB7169B380E Fig. 13 Diagnosis The male of S. minutissimus sp. nov. can be separated from other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: antenna unmodified, hind tibia simple and black, hind basitarsus yellowish ( Fig. 13A ) and S7 without apicolateral lobes ( Fig. 13D ). The female is unknown. Etymology Named for the very small body size of the species. Type material ( 3 specimens ) Holotype SOUTH AFRICA : ♂ , Leliefontein , slope, yellow + white trap , 30.22520° S , 18.13572° E , 25 Sep. 2003 , C. Mayer ( SANC ). Paratypes SOUTH AFRICA : 1 ♂ , Leliefontein , plain, white trap , 30.23391° S , 18.16476° E , 7 Sep. 2003 , C. Mayer ( RCMK ); 1 ♂ , Remhoogte , plain, white trap , 30.23453° S , 18.16499° E , 11 Sep. 2003 , C. Mayer ( RCMK ). Description Male BODY LENGTH. 3.5–4.3 mm . Fig. 13. Scrapter minutissimus sp. nov. , ♂. A . Lateral view. B . Genitalia (dorsal view, SEM). C . Metasoma (dorsal view). D . S7 (dorsal view), left half missing (SEM). E . S8, apical end (SEM). Scale bars: photos: 1 mm, SEM: 0.1 mm. HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black, except mandible partly dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with long, greyish-white, erect hair. Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally dark brown, ventrally yellowish-brown except last two to three flagellar segments completely or largely brown ( Fig. 13A ). MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc impunctate, strongly sculptured and matt. Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 13A ). WINGS. Slightly yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma brown. LEGS. Integument black, tarsi, fore tibia anteriorly (posteriorly brown), mid and hind tibia basally and apically yellow to yellowish-brown ( Fig. 13A ). Hind tibia unmodified. Vestiture greyish-white. METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga partly translucent dark reddish-brown ( Fig. 13C ). Disc of T1 without hair; T2–T4 basally with a broad and dense band of very fine, short, erect, silverish hair covering about half of the terga; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga ( Fig. 13C ). Terga impunctate, sculptured and matt; terga with narrow and slightly sculptured, shiny apical tergal depression ( Fig. 13C ). S3–S5 without distinct apical hair fringes. TERMINALIA. Genitalia ( Fig. 13B ), S7 ( Fig. 13D ) and terminal plate of S8 ( Fig. 13E ) as illustrated. Female Unknown. Distribution The species is only known from the Kamiesberg Mountains. Floral hosts Unknown. Seasonal activity September.