Leioproctus ( Leioproctus ) friesellus Michener, 1965

Leioproctus ( Leioproctus) friesellus Michener, 1965 View in CoL

Paracolletes fervidus * Friese 1924: 220 View in CoL .

Paracolletes friesei * Cockerell 1929d: 306, 1929c: 211 ; 1929b: 2; 1934:27. [Replacement name for P. fervidus Friese 1924 View in CoL , which is a homonym of P. fervidus Smith, 1879 View in CoL ].

Leioproctus freisellus * Michener 1965: 50 [Replacement name for Leioproctus friesei (Cockerell, 1929) View in CoL which is a homonym of L. friesei Ducke, 1912 View in CoL ].

Type

Paracolletes fervidus — Western Australia: holotype ♀, King George Sound ( QM T.4027). Additional material examined: 5♀ Victoria: 19 k S. Murrayville; Rye . South Australia: 48 k S of Pinnaroo ; 7 k W Sherlock .

Collection months: January, February, March.

Floral visitations: Myrtaceae : Melaleuca spp.

Female — Length ca 11 mm. Scutum and scutellum with dense, moderately long, orange hair. Head —Anterior flagellum pale; interspaces on clypeus narrow, smooth; length of malar space about 0.25 x width of base of mandible. Mesosoma — Propodeal triangle with strong transverse carina depressed medially, defining basal area. First recurrent vein of forewing enters second submarginal cell medially. Scopa dark except for white posterior edge; hair on posterior area of hind tibial scopa bimodal; inner hind tibial spur with 5 teeth. Metasoma— Pygidial plate yellow, flat, truncate apically. Male Unknown.