Tigriocolletes, Engel, 2019

Engel, Michael S., 2019, Notes on the classification of Ctenocolletes (Hymenoptera: Stenotritidae), Journal of Melittology 2019 (92), pp. 1-6 : 3

Tigriocolletes Engel , new subgenus

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TYPE SPECIES: Ctenocolletes tigris Houston, 1983b .

DIAGNOSIS: This subgenus may be immediately recognized by the presence of wide, yellow, enamel-like bands on an otherwise black metasoma and a whitish to pale yellow clypeus, such areas of maculation absent in all other Ctenocolletes . As in Ctenocolletopsis , females lack arolia, the compound eyes of the male do not converge dorsally, and the male possesses a pygidial plate. The medioapical process of the male eighth sternum is broadly triangular, closest in form to the condition in Ctenocolletopsis where the process is either narrow or narrowly triangular.

ETYMOLOGY: The new subgeneric name is a combination of tígris (τῐ́γρῐς; genitive, tígreōs, τῐ́γρεως, meaning, “tiger”) and kollitís (ΚΟλλητής, meaning, “gluer” or “one who glues”), and is a reference to the distinctive wide, yellow bands of the metasoma that contrast against the otherwise black integument. The gender of the name is masculine.

INCLUDED SPECIES: The subgenus presently includes only the type species, known from only a few localities in the western portion of the Great Victoria Desert, in Western Australia.