Leioproctus (Leioproctus) crinitus, 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 : 46

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) crinitus sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) crinitus — Northern Territory: holotype ♂, 11 miles (17.6 k) S Angas Downs HS, 20.vi.1971 T.F. Houston off Baeckea blossom ( SAM); paratypes 5♂, same data as holotype ( SAM, ANIC, QM) .

Collection months: June.

Floral visitation: Myrtaceae : Baeckea .

Female —Unknown. Male —Length ca 8 mm; integument black; hair long, fine and white; small, weak punctures and coriaceous interspaces; hair whitish, long with many fine branches. Head— Eyes protuberant; ocelloccipital area as well as area posterior to eye strongly depressed; frontal line carinate from apex of supraclypeal area to just below median ocellus where there is a shallow depression; frons rugulose; antennal sockets not depressed; scape reaching median ocellus; F1 length less than width, F2–11 bipectinate, each segment expanded laterally with extensions curving anteriorly; apex of supraclypeal area tuberculate; lower paraocular area and clypeus with small, strong dense punctures and polished interspaces; dense, long, semierect, densely branched hair; epistomal suture vague; clypeus shallowly protuberant; labial palps reaching apex of extended glossa, segments subequal in length; labrum length about 0.3 x width, apically depressed, base strongly convex, polished; gena about as wide as eye, when head viewed laterally. Mesosoma — Hair dense, long, white; propodeal triangle with basal area faintly rugulose, longer than metanotum. Scutum and scutellum with dense, small punctures, interspaces coriaceous or polished; posteriomedially impunctate and hairless; metanotum densely haired; propodeal triangle with steep basal area not defined by transverse carina. Wings with stigma narrow almost parallel sided, less than half length of costal margin of marginal cell; apex of marginal cell divergent from costal margin for short distance; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell towards base; wings hairy; membrane clear; jugal lobe of hind wing just reaching cu-a. Legs simple with a lot of long hair. Metasoma— Integument black with apical margin white; hair long, erect, fine, white; T7 hairless; S5 with sparse apical fringe; weakly punctate with coriaceous interspaces; male sternal hair sparse and S5 apical margin with weak fringe. S7 with a pair of simple lobes that are sparsely hairy. Genitalia with simple gonoforceps and penis valves. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 51–53.