Leioproctus (Hadrocolletes), 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 : 78

Leioproctus (Hadrocolletes) subgen.n

There are 3 species of large Leioproctus included in this new subgenus. All were placed by Michener (1965) in the subgenus Nodocolletes . Two are only known from a few specimens from Western Australia.

Type species — Lamprocolletes fulvus Smith

Description— Broad-bodied, moderate to large (11–13.5 mm) Leioproctus . Head— Ocellocular area strongly depressed; facial foveae absent; inner eye margins straight, parallel except for short distance dorsally, where they converge slightly; supraclypeal area strongly raised; eye width about the same as paraocular width; epistomal suture weak; malar space short to moderate length; surface sculpture of small, dense, clearly defined punctures with polished interspaces. Mesosoma — Surface sculpture as for face; vestiture of dense, long much branched hair; metanotum with a broad, low to moderate sized pustule; propodeal triangle vertical, coriaceous. Wings with stigma slender, parallel sided, about half the length of the costal margin of the marginal cell; apex of marginal cell blunt but not strongly divergent from the costa; first recurrent vein enters the second submarginal cell basal to middle; jugal lobe of the hind wing reaches cu-a. Legs, simple; basitibial plate of female with dense hair, obscuring the carinate margin; hair of the dorsal female hind tibial scopa dense, monopodially branched; inner hind tibial spur with several long, slender moderately spaced teeth on the middle of the spur; claws with large inner ramus. Metasoma— Broad, males similar to females; sculpture similar to face; males with ill-defined bare area on T7; female S2–4 with long, fine, mostly branched hairs on margin; males with fringes on S4–5.