Leioproctus (Hadrocolletes) macrodontus (Rayment, 1935)

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 : 80

Leioproctus (Hadrocolletes) macrodontus (Rayment, 1935)

Paracolletes macrodontus *Rayment 1935: 674 .

Leioproctus (Nodocolletes) macrodontus (Rayment) . Michener 1965: 63.

Type

Paracolletes macrodontus — Western Australia: holotype ♂, Cottesloe, 11.viii.1912, W.B. A ( ANIC) .

Additional material examined: 7♀, 18♂ Western Australia: 8 k S Yellowdine; 9 miles (14.4 k) N New Norcia; 10 miles (16 k) E Southern Cross .

Months collected: August, September.

Floral visitations: Proteaceae : Grevillea , Hakea perinacea , Banksia .

Female — Length ca 13.5 mm; integument dark brown to black. Head— Hair immediately dorsal to the antennal sockets white, above this dark brown, erect; clypeus with moderately sparse, white and black, branched hairs; malar space short; mandibles slender. Mesosoma — Integument and vestiture similar to that of face; hair long, white and brown, plumose; metanotum with moderate sized median pustule. Wings with membrane clear, wings densely hairy except for basal area of sub-basal and anal cells of the fore wing. Inner hind tibial spur with 6 moderately slender teeth. Metasoma— T1 hair long, white and short branched; T2–4 short, moderately dense hair; prepygidial fimbria coarse, black; pygidial plate sharply constricted before the apex. Male — As for female except as follows: Length ca 11 mm. Head— Flagellar segments strongly protruding ventrally, dorsal apical margin slightly produced; clypeal hair moderately dense. Mesosoma — Protuberance of metanotum long, stout; apex of hind basitibial plate rounded with fine hair. Metasoma— Broad; T7 bare, rough; S4–5 with long, apical fringe with the shortest hairs in the middle. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 145–147.