Leioproctus (Charicolletes) exleyae, 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 : 65

Leioproctus (Charicolletes) exleyae sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Charicolletes) exleyae — South Australia: holotype ♂, 120 k N Innamincka (27°10'S 140°15'S) 15.iv.1990, L. Jansen off Portulaca oleacea & Tribulus occidentalis blossom ( QM T); paratypes, 6♀, 10♂, same data as holotype ( SAM) .

Additional material examined: 161♀ Queensland: Lake Moondarra via Mt Isa; 20 k E Mt Isa ; 5 k E Mt Isa ; Edungalba ; Glenmorgan ; 17 k N St George; 25 k E Bollon; 2 k W St George; 38 k E Cunnamulla; 5 k Nocatunga. New South Wales: 27 k N Bourke; 15 k SE Moree; 21 k E Narrabri; 3 k S Narrabri; 30 miles (42 k) W Cobar; 55 k NW Nyngan; Nyngan ; 2 k W Nyngan; 25 miles (40 k) W Nyngan; 17 miles (27.2 k) N Broken Hill; 50 miles (80 k) W Wentworth. Australian Capital Territory: Black Mountain . Victoria: Lake Bael Bael ; Kerang ; Lake Meran ; Melton. South Australia: 34k S Wilpena; Gawler Range , Kolay Dam (32°33'S 135°36'E). Western Australia: Newman; 7 k SE Newman. Northern Territory: 91 k N Elliott; 19 k N Daly Waters .

Months collected: January, February, November, December.

Floral visitations: Fabaceae : Acacia ; Myrtaceae : Eucalyptus argillacea , Eucalyptus melanopholia , Eucalyptus largiflorens , Eucalyptus populnea , Eucalyptus intertexta , Eucalyptus spp. , Angophora floribunda .

Female —Length ca 10 mm; colour orange to mottled orange or black. Head— Facial foveae weakly impressed; frons covered with moderately dense, long, white hair; ocellocular area flat; frontal line carinate on lower part of frons, absent on upper part of frons; inner eye margin slightly converging; scape reaches median ocellus; apex of supraclypeal area raised; epistomal suture weak to moderately distinct; surface sculpture with very dense, sharply defined punctures with polished interspaces; clypeus with sparse hair; labrum polished, with a shallow median depression. Mesosoma — Scutum covered in moderately dense, short, whitish, branched hair; sculpture of scutum as for face, punctation less dense posteriomedially; metanotum with a low rounded median tubercle; propodeal triangle almost vertical, basally with several fine transverse striae, elsewhere polished; fore wings with pterostigma parallel sided, about 0.5 x length of costal marginal of marginal cell, apex of marginal cell blunt, not strongly divergent from costa; jugal lobe of hind wing reaching cu-a. Legs with fore tibial spur with several fine teeth on apex; basitibial plate with thick, branched hairs; hind tibial scopa white with monopodally branched hair on dorsal posterior area; inner hind tibial spur with 4–5 thick teeth. Metasoma— Surface sculpture as for mesosoma; covered in fine, short hairs; T5 with dense, dark prepygidial fimbria; pygidial plate broad, flat, with a few, irregular, longitudinal striae; sterna with apical marginal band of long, hair, mostly simple with some branched laterally. Male —As for female except as follows: Length ca 9 mm. Head— Clypeus with moderately dense, branched hair. Mesosoma — Scutum with long hair, hind leg with sparse, long branched hair. Metasoma— Tergal hair long, whitish, shaggy; S3–4 with dense, long, white apical fringes. T7 bare medially; for S7–8 and genitalia see figs 106–108.