Leioproctus ( Leioproctus ) carinatus (Smith, 1853)

Leioproctus ( Leioproctus) carinatus (Smith, 1853) View in CoL

Lamprocolletes carinatus *Smith 1853: 11 .

Paracolletes carinatus (Smith) . Cockerell 1905a: 346; 1905c: 482; 1913a: 597, 599; 1913b: 281; 1921: 97; 1929a: 10; 1929d: 307; 1934: 23.

Leioproctus carinatus (Smith) View in CoL . Michener 1965: 50.

Type

Lamprocolletes carinatus — holotype ♀, New Holland ( BMNH 17 a.488) .

Additional material examined: 35♀, 18♂ Queensland: Kuranda; Montville; Bribie I.; Stanthorpe; Sunnybank, Brisbane; Mt Tamborine,. New South Wales: Whites R Hut; Catherine Hill Bay; Boonoo Boonoo Falls. Victoria: Upwey; Hamilton; Gorae West; Sandringham; Black Rock; Ferntree Gully; St Kilda; Seaford; Stafford; Dingley; Carnegie; Geelong; Corryong; Nunawading; Woori Yallock; Ringwood; Bunyip; Healesville; Frankston; Croydon. Tasmania: Freycinet NP; Maria I.

Collection months: January, February, March, April, August, September, October, November, December.

Floral visitations: Unknown.

Female — Length ca 13 mm; integument of the entire body metallic blue. Head— Frontal line flattish with frons in dorsal area; flagellum dark; clypeal puncture interspaces very narrow, smooth; length of malar space about 0.2 x

width of base of mandible. Mesosoma Puncture interspaces of scutum and scutellum granular; propodeal triangle with strong transverse carina, which is depressed medially, that delimits basal area. First recurrent vein of forewing enters second submarginal cell slightly basal to middle; hind tibial scopa entirely black, posterior dorsal area with bimodal hairs; inner hind tibial spur with 7–9 teeth. Metasoma— Pygidial plate with apex truncate. Male — As for female except as follows: Length— ca 10 mm. Head— Vertex extended posteriorly from upper eye margin for about 1 ocellar width; F3–11 length greater than width. Metasoma —T7 hairless medially. Gonoforceps with a subapical protuberance on inner margin. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 21–23.