Goniocolletes ciliatus, Maynard, 2013

Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, Zootaxa 3715 (1), pp. 1-114 : 102

Goniocolletes ciliatus sp.n.

Types

Goniocolletes ciliatus — South Australia: holotype ♀, 34 k S Wilpena, 4.i.1980, R.M. Bohart, off Eucalyptus blossom ( UCD); paratypes, 3♀, same data as holotype ( UCD, QM) .

Months collected: January.

Floral visitations: Myrtaceae : Eucalyptus .

Female —Length ca 10 mm; head and mesosoma black; metasoma orange. Head— Facial fovea defined on all margins, more shallowly depressed on lower margin; vertex with small, dense, punctures; extends about 1 ocellar width behind upper eye margin; ocellocular area flat; scape reaching median ocellus, tapering basally; F1–10 length equal to, or less than width (female); antennal sockets not depressed or only shallowly so; supraclypeal area strongly raised above frons level, flat; clypeus at same level as supraclypeal level, flat; epistomal suture distinct, straight; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa; maxillary palps reaching just beyond apex of extended glossa; inner eye margin straight converging below; hair white, dense, appressed on paraocular area, simple on clypeus; supraclypeal area polished medially with a few sparse, simple hairs laterally; scape black; mandibles mottled red and black; malar space absent. Mesosoma —Hair off white; propodeal triangle slightly roughened basally, polished on vertical area; inner hind tibial spur with 8, long, slender, well spaced teeth; basitibial plate covered in dense, dark hair not obscuring marginal carina. Metasoma— Hair dorsally short, sparse; apical tergal hair bands present; gradulus weak; postgradular area with weaker sculpture than pregradular area hair white, short; pygidial plate flat, rough narrowly rounded apically. Male — Unknown.