Scrapter inexpectatus, Kuhlmann, 2014

Kuhlmann, Michael, 2014, Revision of the euryglossiform species of the Afrotropical bee genus Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 95, pp. 1-69 : 20-22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.95

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3861155

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/30988A75-52DA-4F05-BD24-6AB536CB9C4A

taxon LSID

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Valdenar

scientific name

Scrapter inexpectatus
status

sp. nov.

Scrapter inexpectatus sp. nov.

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Fig. 10 View Fig

Diagnosis

The female of S. inexpectatus sp. nov. can be separated from other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: supraclypeal area and clypeus very sparsely and finely punctate, strongly reticulate and matt ( Fig. 10 View Fig C–D), scutum densely and coarsely punctate ( Fig. 10 View Fig E–F), stigma brown, apical margins of metasomal terga black ( Fig. 10B View Fig ). The male is unknown.

Etymology

The discovery of such an unusual species was unexpected, which is reflected in its name.

Type material (2 specimens)

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA: ♀, 21 km E of Lambert´s Bay , 122 m, 32°08'02" S, 18°30'01" E, 22 Sep. 2001 (identified as S. albitarsis (Friese) , det. 2005 GBP Davies) ( CUIC).

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Paratype

SOUTH AFRICA: 1 ♀, Sauer, 32°50' S, 18°34' E, 21 Oct. 2008, T.L. Griswold (RCMK).

Description

Female

BODY LENGTH. 4.6 mm.

HEAD. Head longer than wide. Integument black, except part of mandibles dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 10C View Fig ). Clypeus slightly convex with sparse, fine and shallow punctation (i = 2–3 d); surface between punctures densely sculptured and matt ( Fig. 10 View Fig C–D). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally blackish-brown, ventrally yellowish-brown.

MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc between punctures densely reticulate and matt; disc densely (i = 0.5–1.0 d) and finely punctate ( Fig. 10 View Fig E–F). Metanotum about 2/3 as long as basal area of propodeum, apically with narrow carinate depression ( Fig. 10F View Fig ). Propodeum basally finely carinate ( Fig. 10F View Fig ). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 10A View Fig ).

WINGS. Yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma brown.

LEGS. Integument black. Vestiture greyish-white, scopa greyish-brown. METASOMA. Integument black. Discs of T1 and T2 without hair, following terga with very few and short hairs; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga ( Fig. 10B View Fig ). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae blackish-brown. T1 densely (i = 1 d) but very finely punctate, apically a bit coarser, between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt; on following terga punctation slightly larger and stronger sculpture; T2–T4 with superficially sculptured and shiny, narrow apical tergal depression ( Fig. 10B View Fig ).

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

The species is just known from two sites in the western part of the Western Cape Province.

Floral hosts

Unknown.

Seasonal activity

September–October.

CUIC

Cornell University Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Colletidae

SubFamily

Scraptrinae

Genus

Scrapter

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