Leioproctus (Minycolletes) eruditus, 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 : 87

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) eruditus sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) eruditus — New South Wales: holotype ♀, 40 miles (64 k) E Broken Hill 20.viii.1969, G.B. Monteith ( QM); paratypes 17♀, same data as holotype ( QM) .

Months collected: August.

Floral visitations: None recorded.

Female —Length ca 7 mm; integument black to dark brown; hair mostly white. Head— Hair moderately dense, long much branched hair; supraclypeal area shallowly raised, punctate; labial palps reach beyond apex of extended glossa, segments subequal in length; 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; female 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 — Hair of scutum and scutellum moderately sparse, whitish brown; with small, clearly defined punctures and polished interspaces; propodeal triangle polished, without a defined basal area lateral foveae not extending beyond basal area; metanotum short, not tuberculate. Wings with first recurrent vein entering second submarginal cell medially, 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. Hind legs with hind basitibial plate with dense, thick, whitish hair, apex pointed, 0.25 x length of tibia covered in dense, simple hair; inner hind tibial spur with about 11 fine teeth; claws with moderate to small inner ramus. Metasoma— Hair, short, dense, fine white hair; Gradulus weak or absent; pregradular area with minute punctures with granular interspaces; postgradular area similar but with fewer punctures; pygidial plate narrow apex with a granular surface; prepygidial fimbria whitish, dense, plumose hair; integument dark brown to black; S2–4 with long, fine branched hair. Male — Unknown.