Colletes kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2013

Kuhlmann, Michael & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2015, New and remarkable Asian and North African species of Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), Zootaxa 4028 (1), pp. 81-101 : 87-89

Colletes kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2013

Colletes kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2013a: 421 , ♀ (holotype: ♀, Repetek, Lebap Prov., Turkmenistan, 24.VI.1937, leg. Yu. Kostylev [ZMMU]).

Material examined. Turkmenistan: 2 ♂, Repetek [63°10'E 38°34'N], 23.V.1974, leg. M. Kozlov [ ZISP / RCMK].

Remarks. The male of C. kaline has been unknown and is described here for the first time based on specimens collected at the same locality and season as the female. The pilosity pattern of the male differed from that of C. morawitzensis Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin as predicted ( Proshchalykin & Kuhlmann 2015a).

Diagnosis. Within the C. flavicornis -group the only male with an apically smooth and shiny, conspicuously raised clypeus known so far has been C. morawitzensis . As explained in the description of this species ( Proshchalykin & Kuhlmann 2015a) it is very unlikely that it is the male of two species only known from females that have a similarly formed clypeus, namely C. kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin and C. pallipes Noskiewicz. Recently two male specimens with the characteristic raised clypeus became available for study that fit the body size and pilosity pattern expected for C. kaline . The male of C. kaline differs from C. morawitzensis by its larger body (9 mm instead of 7.5 mm), shorter malar area (medially about 1.2 times as long as width of mandible base; 1.5 times as long in C. morawitzensis ), broader apical tergal hair bands and more extensive pilosity of short, appressed hair at the base of metasomal terga ( Figs 5 b, c) compared to C. morawitzensis ( Fig. 5 d). S7 is apically distinctly broader ( Fig. 5 e) than in C. morawitzensis .

Description. Male. Bl = 9.0 mm. Head. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black except part of mandible dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with long, white, erect hair. Malar area medially about as long as width of mandible base, finely striate, matt and sparsely covered with short appressed, white hairs. Clypeus apically smooth and shiny, conspicuously raised. Antenna black, ventrally dark yellowish-brown. Mesosoma. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc smooth and shiny between punctures; disc sparsely punctate (i = 2–3d) with small punctures. Mesoscutellum almost impunctate,t with dense punctation on apical margin, surface smooth and shiny. Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with long, greyish-white erect hairs ( Fig. 5 a). Wings. Slightly yellowish-brown; wing venation light yellowish-brown. Legs. Integument black to dark reddish-brown, tarsi dark yellowish-brown. Vestiture greyish-white. Metasoma. Integument black except depressed apical tergal margins yellowish translucent ( Fig. 5 c). Most of T1 and basal parts of T2–T3 sparsely covered with short appressed, white hairs; T1 and disc of T2 additionally covered with long, white, erect hairs; apical tergal hair bands broad ( Figs 5 b, c). Terga apically slightly depressed. Terga with very dense and fine punctation (i <0.5d), slightly matt, smooth and shiny between punctures ( Figs 5 b, c). Terminalia. Genitalia and S7 as illustrated in Figs 5 e, f.

Distribution. Turkmenistan.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Colletes kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2013, male: a. specimen, lateral view; b. metasoma (dorsal view); c. metasomal terga 1 and 2; e. metasomal sternum 7 (dorsal view); f. gonostylus (lateral view). C. morawitzensis Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2015, male: d. metasomal terga 1 and 2. Scale bar: 1 mm.