Leioproctus (Minycolletes) exiguus, 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 : 88

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) exiguus sp.n.

Types

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) exiguus — Western Australia: holotype ♂, near Carnarvon, 6.ix.1954, A. Snell ( MV); paratypes, 1♂, same data as holotype; 1♂, Yuin Station , 30 miles (42 k) NE Mullewa, 7.viii.1954, A. Snell ( ANIC) .

Months collected: August, September.

Floral visitations: None recorded.

Female — Unknown. Male — Length ca 6 mm; integument black with brown legs and densely plumose, white hair. Head —Face densely covered in long, white, much branched hair; surface sculpture of dense, small, clearly defined punctures with polished interspaces; vertex slightly curved above lateral ocelli; facial foveae absent; inner eye margins straight, converging below; F1–3 length less than width; F4–11 length about equal to width; interantennal distance greater than width of paraocular area at level of antennal sockets; epistomal suture weak; clypeus almost flat; supraclypeal area flat, punctate; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa, segments subequal in length; 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 —Scutum and scutellum covered in long, white hair; with small, clearly defined punctures and polished interspaces; metanotum short, not tuberculate; propodeal triangle without a defined basal area, coriaceous; first recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell slightly basal to middle, pterostigma 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; legs covered in long, white hair; joints paler than surrounding integument. Metasoma —Terga covered in long, white hair; T7 bare medially, S5 with a dense, apical fringe; for S7–8 and genitalia see figs 163–165.