Leioproctus (Minycolletes) wahlenbergiae Michener, 1965

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 : 92-93

Leioproctus (Minycolletes) wahlenbergiae Michener, 1965 n.comb.

Leioproctus (Microcolletes) wahlenbergiae * Michener 1965: 56 , 250; figs 96–98; Plate 1 (8,9).

Types

Leioproctus (Microcolletes) wahlenbergiae — Queensland: holotype ♀, 17 miles (27.2 k) S Dalby, 20.x.1958, C.D. Michener

(ANIC); " allotype " (= paratype), ♂, same data as holotype; paratypes, 1♀, same data as holotype ( QM T.6235); 1♂, Jondaryan, 20.x.1958, C.D. Michener, on Wahlenbergia ( QM T.6234) .

Additional material examined: 2♀, 4♂ Queensland: Helidon; St. Ruth; Kogan .

Months collected: October.

Floral visitations: Campanulaceae : Wahlenbergia .

Female — Length ca 8.5 mm; integument dark brown to black with white hair. Head— Hair fine, moderately sparse, erect; supraclypeal area is polished, apex shallowly raised; epistomal suture distinct; labial palps not reaching apex of extended glossa, basal segment is as long as distal 3, 3 distal segments are as long as wide. Mesosoma — Hair moderately sparse, long, fine; tegulae translucent brown; propodeal triangle coriaceous. First recurrent vein enters second submarginal cell medially. Fore and mid legs with relatively dense, almost appressed hair; hind basitibial plate covered in dense white hair, about 0.25 x length of tibia, apex broadly rounded; hind tibial scopa white; inner hind tibial spur with 7–8 teeth. Metasoma— Hair sparse, short, fine, erect; prepygidial fimbria white, short, dense; pygidial plate rough, broadly rounded apically. Male — As female except as follows: Length ca 7.5 mm. Head— Hair below antennal sockets moderately dense; F1–11 length less than width, F2 and 3 shortest segments. Mesosoma — All legs with moderately dense, long white hairs. Metasoma— T7 bare medially; S5 lacking apical fringe. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 181–183.