Goniocolletes perfasciatus ( Cockerell, 1906 )

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 : 107-108

Goniocolletes perfasciatus ( Cockerell, 1906)

Paracolletes perfasciatus * Cockerell 1906: 25 ; 1934:32.

Leioproctus (Goniocolletes) perfasciatus (Cockerell) . Michener 1965: 66.

Type

Paracolletes perfasciatus — Western Australia: holotype ♀ ( BMNH 17 a.424). Additional material examined: 18♀, 20♂ Queensland: 38 k E Cunnamulla . New South Wales: 80 k NE Wentworth; Caldwell . Victoria: 20 miles (32 k) SE Mildura; Lake Hattah ; Normanville; 19 k S Murrayville . South Australia: 7 k W Sherlock; 0.5 k S Morganvale HS; Makaranka, Morgan; 7 miles (11.2 k), E Taylorville; Hartley; 6.5 k W Lameroo; 13 k S Geranium . Western Australia: 7 k N Wannoo; 13 k SE Dongara; 23 k S Mingenew .

Months collected: January, February, March, April, December.

Floral visitations: Myrtaceae : Angophora floribunda , Eucalyptus largiflorens , Eucalyptus spp. , Mallee.

Female— Length ca 11 mm; head and mesosoma black; metasoma black. Head— Facial fovea clearly defined on all margins; mandibles reddish with darkened tips; malar space with length about 0.3 x width, covered in white hair; hair white, densely branched on paraocular and frons, simple on clypeus and supraclypeal area. Mesosoma — Hair white to off-white; propodeal triangle with basal area polished with a few carinae, vertical area with carinae dorsolaterally; inner hind tibial spur with about 7 long, slender teeth; basitibial plate covered in dense, dark branched hair, marginal carina obscured. Metasoma— Apical tergal margins translucent; strong white apical hair bands present on T2–4; prepygidial fimbria black; hair sparse, fine short, white; pygidial plate flat, rough, broadly rounded apically; gradulus weak. Male — As for female except as follows: Length ca 11 mm. Head— Hair yellow, appressed around marginal areas, erect medially; flagellar segments expanded on posterior surface, yellow except for dorsal black stripe; mandibles black, slender with reddish tips; labrum broad, shallowly convex, polished; beard, long, pale yellow. Mesosoma — Legs brown, with tarsi, anterior fore tibiae and hind tibiae yellow, mid trochanter with ventral projection; all femora, mid and hind tibiae swollen, basitarsi flattened, hind basitarsi broad; hair of scutum and scutellum pale yellow long, dense. Metasoma — Hair pale yellow; T1 with long, dense hair; T2– 5 with pale, short hair; T2–5 with narrow apical hair bands, margins transparent; S2–4 with short, dense fringes; S6 with an apical tuft; T7 completely bare; S8 projects strongly. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 220–222.