Leioproctus ( Minycolletes ) finkei Michener, 1965

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

Leioproctus ( Microcolletes) finkei * Michener 1965: 55 View in CoL , 248, plate 1 (fig.11).

Types

Leioproctus ( Microcolletes) finkei — Northern Territory: holotype ♀, Finke Crossing, 1933, J.W. Rose ( ANIC); paratypes, 2♀, same data as holotype ( ANIC) .

Additional material examined: 16♀, 6♂ Queensland: 3 miles (4.8 k) W Windorah; 2 miles (3.2 k) NE Windorah; 8 miles (12.8 k) NE Windorah. South Australia: 3–8 k N Ooldea; 29 miles (46.4 k) ESE Amala (Musgrave Park). Western Australia: Perth. Northern Territory: 30 k S of Alice Springs.

Months collected: April, August, October, November.

Floral visitations: Asteraceae : Xerochrysum bracteatum ; Portulacaceae : Calandrinia balonensis .

Female — Length ca 7.5 mm; integument of head and thorax black, metasoma orange or mottled orange/brown; hair whitish. Head— Hair moderate length, moderately dense, lying flat but not appressed; supraclypeal area shallowly raised, punctate; labial palps not reaching apex of extended glossa, segments about as long as broad. Mesosoma — Tegulae transparent; hair of scutum short, lying flat; propodeal triangle polished. First recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell towards the apex. Hind basitibial plate with brownish, short, thick, dense hair; inner hind tibial spur with 6 fine teeth; legs yellowish. Metasoma— Hair of terga short, white, appressed; prepygidial fimbria whitish. Male — As for female except as follows: Length ca 6 mm. Head — F2–3 length less than 0.5 x width, F1, 4– 11 length as most as great as width, scape with much long, white hair. Mesosoma — Hair of scutum and scutellum moderate length, moderately dense. Tibiae and tarsi yellowish. Metasoma— T7 with broad, polished, hairless median area; S5 with apical fringe with hair thick, white, laterally greater than 2 x length of median hair. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 166–168a,b.