Leioproctus ( Lamprocolletes ) dentiger (Cockerell, 1910)

Leioproctus ( Lamprocolletes) dentiger (Cockerell, 1910) View in CoL

Paracolletes dentiger * Cockerell 1910a: 199–200 , 206; 1914b: 41; 1934: 25.

Paracolletes subvigilans * Cockerell 1914b: 45 ; 1934: 36. syn.n.

Leioproctus ( Nodocolletes) dentiger (Cockerell) View in CoL . Michener, 1965: 63, figs 123–125.

Leioproctus ( Nodocolletes) subvigilans (Cockerell) View in CoL . Michener, 1965: 63.

The holotype of Paracolletes subvigilans is the female of Paracolletes dentiger . The sexes have been associated by morphological similarity (they both lack a defined anterior margin to the hind basitibial plate, amongst other characters) and coincident collection data.

Types

Paracolletes dentiger — holotype ♂, New Holland ( ZMB 1952 View Materials ) .

Paracolletes subvigilans — Western Australia: ♀, Yallingup, Cape Naturaliste, 14.ix.–31.x.1913, R.E. Turner ( BMNH 17 a.448) .

Additional material examined: 3♀, 1♂ Western Australia: Bunbury; Yallingup; Yallingup .

Months collected: September, October, November.

Floral visitations: None recorded.

Female — Length ca 12 mm; entire body strongly punctate; dark metallic blue. Head— Facial fovea indicated by smooth area, margins distinct; vertex short, supraclypeal area strongly raised but not apically tuberculate; paraocular area about equal to width of eye at level of antennal sockets; scape reaching beyond median ocellus; clypeus strongly rounded; the exposed labrum is almost as long as wide, shallowly depressed medially; gena wider than eye viewed laterally; lower paraocular and lateral supraclypeal area with moderately dense, white, open branched hair; clypeus with sparse, long, simple hair. Mesosoma — Dorsally hair mostly short, black, white around margins of scutum and scutellum; laterally hair mostly white; metanotum with large, thick nodule with black upper and white lower hair; basal area of propodeal triangle indicated by several short, transverse ridges. Wings with membrane darkened, hind wing with jugal lobe reaching beyond cu-v; pterostigma slender, long about 0.2 x length of costal margin of marginal cell. Legs with anterior margin of hind basitibial plate not clearly defined, hair of basitibial plate branched; hair of anterior hind tibial scopa monopodal; inner hind tibial spur straight with 6 fine teeth. Metasoma— T1 with sparse, long, branched hair; other segments with short, simple hair; prepygidial fimbria dense, thick, black; pygidial plate broad flat, straight apically with a few basal striae; ventral surface with moderately dense, long, white, branched hairs. Male — As for female except as follows: Length ca 11 mm. Head— Lower paraocular area with appressed, dense, white hair; flagellum moderate length. Mesosoma — Legs black.

Metasoma— Sternal fringes absent. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 151–153.