Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) pamelae, Dathe, 2014

Dathe, Holger H., 2014, Studies on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Hylaeus F. (8) Revision of the Afrotropic subgenus Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) Bridwell (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae), Zootaxa 3874 (1), pp. 1-84 : 58-59

Hylaeus (Deranchylaeus) pamelae sp. n.

Figures 114–115

Diagnosis

This is a large dark species, with a rounded head and pronounced matt sculpture. Its propodeum is sloping, rounded and with dense punctation. The male is unknown.

Description

Female. TL 7.68 mm, WL 4.96 mm.

Head. Proportions HL:HW 0.91, UFW:LFW 1.58, outline transversely elliptical. Scapi black; flagella short, yellow below, dark above. Face entirely black. Foveae faciales long, expanded to vertex. Clypeus CL:CW 1.07, flat, anterior margin somewhat bent, shagreen and matt, punctation strong, close. Supraclypeal area wide. Frons and vertex with coarse, subcontiguous to contiguous punctation, pilosity inconspicuous; genae thickened, malae expanded. Labrum and mandibles black.

Mesosoma compact, pilosity white, short, sparse, denser and longer ventrally and adjacent to metanotum. Pronotum in front with bright stripe, calli and tegulae black. Pronotum narrow expanded forward; anterior margin and dorsolateral angles rounded. Mesonotum and scutellum shagreen, matt, with strong to coarse, close punctation; mesopleurae similar, mesonotum somewhat finer sculptured. Legs entirely black, wings darkened, venation black. Propodeum rounded, distally strongly sloping, with fine sculpture, punctation strong, subcontiguous; medial area limited only by wrinkled sculpture, without carina; terminal area laterally sharply edged.

Metasoma compact spindle-shaped; black. T1 finely striate, silky shining, punctation moderate, dense to close, towards the end finer and denser; T2 with fine, dense punctation, following terga without significant puncturing, matt; T1 with narrow white lateral fringes; broadly interrupted white cilia bands on depressions of following terga. Fringe of last sternum pale.

Distribution

South Africa.

Type material: 1 ♀

Holotypus: ♀ SOUTH AFRICA. KwaZulu-Natal: Kamberg, Forest, 29.37611S 2961654E, 2100 m, 13.01.2006, ARC leg.—In coll. SANC Pretoria.

Derivatio nominis

I dedicate this new species Mrs Pamela Eardley.

Figures

FIGURES 114–115. H. (Deranchylaeus) pamelae sp. n., female (typus): 114 head in frontal view, 115 surface structure of basal terga. Scale 0.5 mm.