Leioproctus (Minycolletes) aquilus, 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 : 86

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) aquilus sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) aquilus — New South Wales: holotype ♀, Pilliga Scrub , 64 k S Narrabri, 4.xii.1976, E.M. Exley and T. Low off Astrotricha longifolia blossom ( QM); paratypes, 32♀, 2♂, same data as holotype ( QM) .

Additional material examined: 1♀, 1♂ Queensland: Amiens ; 38 k E of Cunnamulla.

Months collected: November, December.

Floral visitations: Araliaceae : Astrotricha longifolia ; Myrtaceae : Angophora floribunda .

Female —Length ca 7 mm; integument black to dark brown, flagellum orangish; hair white. densely plumose; integument dark brown to black. Head— Supraclypeal area shallowly raised, polished; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa, segments subequal in length; antennal sockets shallowly depressed. Vertex slightly curved above lateral ocelli; facial foveae absent; inner eye margins almost straight, converging slightly dorsally and ventrally; surface sculpture of dense, small, clearly defined punctures with polished interspaces; facial hair dense, semierect to erect, much branched above and lateral to antennal sockets, elsewhere on face fine and sparse; flagella F1, 4–11 length about equal to width, F2–3 length less than width; epistomal suture weak; clypeus almost flat; malar space absent; labrum short polished, length less than 0.25 x width; width of gena less than eye width, when head viewed laterally. Mesosoma — Scutum and scutellum with small, clearly defined punctures and polished interspaces; hair of scutum and scutellum sparse, fine white; propodeal triangle polished; lateral foveae extend along margin of basal area. First recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell slightly apical to middle. Basitibial plate about 0.25 x length of tibia, covered in thick dark, simple hairs; inner hind tibial spur with about 6 fine teeth; metanotum short, not tuberculate; propodeal triangle without a defined basal area, smooth. Wings with stigma large, about 0.6 x length of costal margin of marginal cell; marginal cell broad, apex strongly divergent from costa; jugal lobe of hind wing narrow, reaching beyond cu-a; wing membrane clear; inner hind tibial spur with 6 or more long, fine, moderately spaced teeth; claws with inner ramus moderate to small. Metasoma— Gradulus weak or absent; pregradular area with minute punctures with granular interspaces; postgradular area similar but with fewer punctures; with at most very weak apical hair bands, apical margins of terga translucent; S2–4 with long, fine, branched hair; Hair of terga, short, fine, appressed; prepygidial fimbria whitish, narrow; pygidial plate granular, moderately wide apex, rounded. Male —As for female except as follows: Length ca 6 mm. Head— Inner eye margins straight, converging below; male interantennal distance greater than width of paraocular area at level of antennal sockets; flagellum males usually short, F1–2 length much less than width; F3–11 length greater than width; hair on face dense, semierect to erect, much branched. Mesosoma — hair of scutum and scutellum long, fine and sparse (males). Metasoma —T7 with bare median area; S5 without an apical fringe. Male genitalia with gonobase about 0.25 x length of genitalia and large gonofossa; gonoforceps unornamented; vosellae somewhat enlarged. S7 with very large apical lobes, for details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 160–162.