Leioproctus (Minycolletes) paulus, 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) paulus sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) paulus — Western Australia: holotype ♂, 22 k NE Tamala HS (26˚42'S 113˚43'E), 21–23.viii.1980, C.A. Howard and T.F. Houston on Calandrinia polyandra ( WAM 89 /599); paratype, 1♂, same data as holotype ( WAM 89 / 600) .

Additional material examined: 2♂ Western Australia: 10 k S Nerren HS; 10 k ESE Meedo HS .

Months collected: August.

Floral visitations: Portulacaceae : Calandrinia polyandra .

Female —Unknown. Male— Length ca 7 mm; integument black, fore leg orange, hair white with extremely short branches. Head— Hair long, dense with branches short such that hair looks simple; supraclypeal area flat, punctate; antennal socket not depressed; F2–4 length less than width, F1,5–11 length almost as long as width; mandibles with long, slender, apical tooth and large pollex, long branched hair to level of dorsal tooth; maxillae constricted at bases of maxillary palps; labial palps not reaching apex of extended glossa, segments short, subequal in length. Mesosoma — Hair of scutum and scutellum long, moderately sparse; tegulae translucent brown; propodeal triangle coriaceous. First recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell almost at apex. Fore and mid tibia with posterior apical tufts of hair; apex of fore femur and anterior fore tibia orange; fore and mid legs with short hair on legs, hind legs with long hair. Metasoma— Hair of terga short, fine appressed; T7 medially bare. S5 with long, dense apical fringe with longest hair laterally (emarginate). For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 175–177.