Patellapis (Chaetalictus) villosicauda ( Cockerell 1937 )

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, Zootaxa 2099, pp. 1-188 : 178-180

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17863/cam.5647

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6489892

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC484B04-FF5B-FF50-1FE0-F87CFC98FE3F

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Felipe

scientific name

Patellapis (Chaetalictus) villosicauda ( Cockerell 1937 )
status

 

Patellapis (Chaetalictus) villosicauda ( Cockerell 1937) View in CoL

Halictus villosicaudus Cockerell, 1937: 91 .

( Figs. 128a–g View FIGURE 128 )

Diagnosis. The male is unknown. The female is characterised by the reddish metasomal terga, a finely serrate inner hind tibial spur and a strongly and completely reticulate scutum and scutellum.

Description

Female. Bl = 6,0– 6,1mm. General habitus ( Fig. 128e View FIGURE 128 ). Head. L = 1,6–1,7mm; W = 1,7–1,8mm. Head about as wide as long ( Fig. 128a View FIGURE 128 ). Integument black except mandibles and malar area usually partly reddishbrown. Face shiny and with loose, greyish and pallid yellowish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus sparsely punctate; surface polished. Clypeoantennal distance 0,3mm. Supraclypeal area sparsely punctate; surface shiny; finely reticulate. Paraocular area densely punctate; surface shiny and extensively sculptured. Antennae mostly reddish-brown. Mesosoma. L = 1,1–1,3mm; W (ITS) = 1,3–1,4mm. Integument black. Scutum slightly dull; surface strongly and completely reticulate; disc densely punctate (i = d) ( Fig. 128b View FIGURE 128 ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 128c View FIGURE 128 . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with greyish and pallid yellowish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 128c View FIGURE 128 ; propodeum slightly dull; completely reticulate; finely and sparsely punctate. Marginal region of posterior truncation slightly dull; extensively reticulate and partly wrinkled.

Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish. Vestiture greyish. Ts finely serrate; with about 10 short, broad, oblique projections ( Fig. 128f View FIGURE 128 ). Bp as illustrated ( Fig. 128g View FIGURE 128 ). Metasoma. L = 3,6–3,8mm; W = 2,0– 2,2mm. Integument reddish to reddish-brown; margins of T usually pallid reddish to pale; margins broadly translucent. No apical hair bands present on metasomal terga. Prepygidial fimbria mostly yellowish. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 128d View FIGURE 128 .

Male. Unknown.

Type material ( 1 specimen). Holotype, female, Western Cape: Cape Province, Mossel Bay , iii–iv.1930 (white label), Halictus villosicaudus Ckll Type (handwritten white label), Type (red-white label), S. Africa, R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1930–244 (white label), B.M. TYPE HYM. 17a.837 (white label), BMNH.

Additional material (6 specimens). 6♀. South Africa, Western Cape : 1♀, Mossel Bay , 21.–viii.1932, legR. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1932–421, BMNH ; 1♀, Table Farm, Grahamstown , 26.ii.–10.iii.1971, leg. F.W. Gess, AMGS ; 4♀, idem., 10.–31.iii.1971, AMGS .

Distribution ( Fig. 129 View FIGURE 129 ). Few records exist from the southern part of South Africa (Western Cape and Eastern Cape).

Floral visitation. Unknown.

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). ii–viii.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

AMGS

Albany Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Patellapis

Loc

Patellapis (Chaetalictus) villosicauda ( Cockerell 1937 )

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael 2009
2009
Loc

Halictus villosicaudus

Cockerell, T. D. A. 1937: 91
1937
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