Leioproctus (Minycolletes) pygmaeus, 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 : 91

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) pygmaeus sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) pygmaeus — Western Australia: holotype ♂, 7 k SE Newman, 23.xii.1975, E.M. Exley and R.I. Storey off Acacia blossom ( QM); paratypes 2♂, same data as holotype ( QM) .

Months collected: December.

Floral visitations: Fabaceae : Acacia .

Female —Unknown. Male —Length ca 7 mm; integument black to dark brown, legs paler; hair white. Head— Vertex slightly curved above lateral ocelli; facial foveae absent; inner eye margins straight, converging below; surface sculpture of dense, small, clearly defined punctures with polished interspaces; hair dense, lying flat, strongly branched; supraclypeal area punctate, apex shallowly raised; interantennal distance greater than width of paraocular area at level of antennal sockets; F1,2 length less than width, whitish; dorsal tooth indistinct; 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; labial palps just longer than extended glossa, basal 3 segments subequal in length, apical segment 2 x long as other segments. Mesosoma — Scutum and scutellum with small, clearly defined punctures and polished interspaces; hair long, moderately dense; propodeal triangle polished without a defined basal area, tegulae transparent. Wings with stigma large, about 0.6 x length of costal margin of marginal cell; marginal cell broad, apex strongly divergent from costa; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell medianly; jugal lobe of hind wing narrow, reaching beyond cu-a; wing membrane clear. Legs with long, fine hair. Metasoma— Hair of terga moderately long, erect; gradulus weak or absent; pregradular area with minute punctures with granular interspaces; postgradular area similar but with fewer punctures; T7 bare medially; S5 with a short, dense, truncate apical fringe. 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 178–180.