Leioproctus ( Minycolletes ) microsomus Michener, 1965

Leioproctus ( Minycolletes) microsomus Michener, 1965 View in CoL n.comb

Leioproctus ( Microcolletes) microsomus * Michener 1965: 55 View in CoL , 248–249, plate 1 (fig.10). Types Leioproctus ( Microcolletes) microsomus View in CoL — Queensland: holotype ♀, 17 miles (27.2 k) S Dalby, 20.x.1958, C.D. Michener

(ANIC); " allotype " (= paratype), ♂, same data as holotype (ANIC); paratypes: 1♂, same data as holotype ( QM T.6237) ;

1♀, Jondaryan, 10.x.1958, C.D. Michener ( QM T.6236) .

Additional material examined: 2♀, 2♂ Queensland: Helidon; St. Ruth; Kogan .

Months collected: October.

Floral visitations: None recorded.

Female— Length ca 6 mm; integument dark brown, hair whitish. Head —Supraclypeal area polished; clypeus flat, shallowly depressed medially, polished with only a few weak punctures, with moderately dense, much branched hair except medially; maxillary palp segments more or less equal in length; labial palp with basal segment slender, longer than following 2 combined; apical segment as long as medial 2 segments combined. Mesosoma — Hair of scutum and scutellum short, moderately dense, branched; propodeal triangle polished with lateral foveae extending well below basal area. Basitibial plate pointed apically, hair black thick, dense; inner hind tibial spur with about 6, large, slender teeth. Metasoma— Hair moderately long; prepygidial fimbria restricted to apex of T5, pale brown. Male —As for female except as follows: Length ca 5mm. Head—Scape with moderately dense, long hair; flagellum very short, F1–3 length much less than width, F4–11 length barely same as width. Mesosoma — Hair of scutum and scutellum long. Metasoma— T7 with bare, polished median area; S5 apical fringe with dense white, hair length about 0.5 x width of S5. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 154–156.