Colletes comaticus Kuhlmann
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.1.3 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3B28DD7C-E7CD-45F8-9401-4E0125279A5B |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105600 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC-FFA3-FFCA-FF2C-FBA5FE4262F8 |
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Plazi |
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Colletes comaticus Kuhlmann |
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sp. nov. |
Colletes comaticus Kuhlmann , sp. nov.
( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 a–c; 2a, b)
Diagnosis. The male of C. comaticus has a characteristically shaped S7 ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 c) that is apically much narrower than in the closely related C. bernadettae Kuhlmann ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 d) and C. comatoides Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 f). In C. comatus Noskiewicz the apical emargination of S7 is shallower and it has numerous lateral hairs at its base ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 e) that are lacking in C. comaticus . Furthermore, T7 is apically shallowly emarginate ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 b) in C. comaticus (similar in C. comatus ) while C. bernadettae ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 d) and C. comatoides ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 f) have clearly developed spines. The disc of T2 is almost completely covered with short appressed hairs in C. comaticus ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 a) and C. comatus while in C. bernadettae ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 c) and C. comatoides ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 e) the disc is glabrous to a variable extend. The punctation on the disc of T1 is coarser, more dispersed and shiny between punctures in C. bernadettae than in the three other species who have very fine and dense punctation.
Description. Male. Bl = 7.5–8.0 mm. Head. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black, except mandible partly dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with long, yellowish-white, erect hairs. Malar area medially about half as long as width of mandible base, finely striate, matt. Antenna black, ventrally yellowish-brown. Mesosoma. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc between punctures smooth and shiny; disc finely and densely punctate (i = 0.5– 1d). Mesoscutellum anteriorly almost impunctate, but with dense punctation apically, surface smooth and shiny. Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with long, yellowish-white erect hairs ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 a). Wings. Slightly yellowish-brown; wing venation brown. Legs. Integument reddish-brown. Vestiture yellowish-white. Metasoma. Integument black except depressed apical tergal margins reddish to yellowish translucent ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 a). Terga densely covered with short, yellowish-white appressed hairs, T1 also sparsely covered with long, erect hairs of the same colour; apical tergal hair band on T1 relatively narrow, on following terga very broad ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 a, b). Terga apically distinctly depressed, with dense and fine punctation (i <0.5d), smooth and shiny between punctures ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 a); apical margin of T7 narrowly emarginate ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 b). Sterna with apical hair bands very broad. Terminalia. Genitalia and S7 as illustrated in Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 b, c.
Type material (4 specimens). Holotype, male, Iran: Kerman prov., 20 km E Ghobira [56°35'E 30°06'N], 1780 m, 5.VI.2010, M. Halada [ OÖLM]. Paratypes: 3 ♂, same dates and locality as holotype [ OÖLM / RCMK]. Female. Unknown.
Etymology. The species name refers to its similarity to C. comatus and C. comatoides . General distribution. Only known from the type locality in Iran. Floral hosts. Unknown.
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