Colletes bokkeveldi, Kuhlmann, 2007

Kuhlmann, Michael, 2007, Revision of the bees of the Colletes fasciatus-group in southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), African Invertebrates 48 (2), pp. 121-166 : 134-135

Colletes bokkeveldi sp. n.

Figs 12, 13, 40

Etymology: Named after the Bokkeveld Plateau around Nieuwoudtville.

Diagnosis: Male is best identified by the unique shape of S7 ( Fig. 12).

Description:

Male.

Length 11–12 mm.

Vestiture:Face greyish white to white with black hairs intermixed along inner eye margins and on vertex; mesonotum with long greyish white to white hairs, with numerous longer black hairs; mesosomal sides and legs white, scutellum and metanotum with long, yellowish white hairs intermixed with few black hairs; T1 densely covered with long, erect greyish white hairs, disc of T2 with shorter, concolorous hairs; discs of T3–T6 with long, erect, blackish hairs; narrow, white posterior tergal hair bands on T1–T5, very narrow on T6; S1–S5 with dense, relatively short, fringes, laterally longer than medially; S6 antero-laterally with an elongate brush of dense, short, red bristles.

Integument: Completely black, except tarsi reddish to yellowish brown and terga narrowly translucent posteriorly; malar area short, about 1/2 as long as width of mandibular base; clypeus with very dense, small punctures (<0.2 pd); facial fovea narrow, maximum width about antennal diameter; disc of mesonotum medium-sized, relatively dense punctation (0.5–1 pd), integument between punctures glabrous, surrounded by dense (<0.5 pd) punctation; upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short, longitudinal carinae anteriorly, posteriorly and upper vertical part with irregular transversal carinae, integument between carinae and lower parts superficially shagreened; mid femora broadest near base, forming a right-angled edge with a sharp ridge ventrally; basitarsus of hindleg modified, sightly curved, a bit broadened apically with prominent long, reddish bristles on dorsal apical edge; discs of T1 and T2 with fine shallow, dense (0.5–1 pd) punctation, punctures becoming slightly finer and indistinctly shallow on posterior tergal depression; integument between punctures glabrous; shape of S7 as in Fig. 12 and shape of gonostylus as in Fig. 13.

Female. Unknown.

Holotype: ơ SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve, 21.vii.1986, Whitehead , on Othonna sp. ( SANC).

Paratype: 1ơ SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve , 4.viii.1988, V. B. Whitehead, on Arctotheca calendula (CMK) .

Distribution: Only known from Nieuwoudtville in the Northern Cape ( Fig. 40 ).

Flower visiting: Arctotheca calendula , Othonna sp. (Asteraceae) .

Phenology: First record 21 st July, last record 4 th August.

Figures

Fig. 40. Distribution of C. abnormis, C. albohirtus, C. aureocinctus, C. bokkeveldi, C. cardiurus and C. cyanonitidus.