Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani Houston, 1991

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 : 44

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani Houston, 1991

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani * Houston 1991: 88 .

Types

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) macmillani — Western Australia: holotype ♂, Gnangara [State Forest], ca 20 k NNE Perth, 11.vi.1982, R.P. McMillan, off Astroloma xerophyllum blossom (WAM 87/1452) [not seen]; paratypes, 1♀, 1♂, Melaleuca Park , 11 k NE Wanneroo, 7.viii.1989, T.F. Houston off Astroloma xerophyllum and Andersonia heterophylla blossom (QM).

Collection months: June, August.

Floral visitations: Ericaceae : Astroloma xerophyllum , Andersonia heterophylla .

Female — Length ca 12 mm; head and mesosoma black, metasoma vaguely metallic; hair long, fine, whitish.

Head— Flagellum simple, F1–11 length about equal to width; clypeus strongly protuberant; area around subantennal suture and tentorial pit glabrous; malar space glabrous length nearly 3 x width of base of mandible; epistomal suture vague; labrum length 0.75 x width, contrastingly yellow; mandibles broad, apical fringe of glossa long; maxillary palps apical 2 segments shorter than basal four, basal four subequal in length, maxillary palps reaching apex of extended glossa; gena about as wide as eye when head viewed laterally; hair of clypeus moderately dense, branched. Mesosoma —Hair of scutum and scutellum white interspersed with black; fore basitarsus with long, thick spines ventrally and stiff hairs dorsally curving anteriorly, forming a corbicula-like area anteriorly; claws with large, basal inner ramus. Metasoma T2–4 with hair long, fine moderately dense; female prepygidial fimbria coarse, black; female pygidial plate broad, flat emarginate apically; female sternal hair long, moderately dense with few branches. Male — As for female except as follows: Length ca 9 mm. Head —Flagellar segments bipectinate; gena wider than eye, when head viewed laterally. Mesosoma — Legs simple, fore tibial spur with malus extended beyond velum; fore basitarsus not spinose. Metasoma— T7 with a narrow, median hairless area; S7 with one pair of simple lateral lobes covered apically with short, thick spines; for details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 48–50.