Leioproctus (Alokocolletes) excubitor Houston, 1991

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 : 62

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C099D583-4AD5-48EB-8C20-8B6EDE58801D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6509076

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Leioproctus (Alokocolletes) excubitor Houston, 1991
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Types

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) excubitor Western Australia: holotype ♂, East Yuna Reserve , 34 k WNW of Mullewa, 24– 26.viii.1985, T.F. Houston ( WAM 89 About WAM /520) ; paratypes, 1♂, 11 k ENE Anketell HS (28˚02'S 188˚51'E), 4–6.ix.1981, T.F. Houston, on trunks of dead mulga ( QM) ; 1♀, East Yuna nature Reserve, 34 k WNW Mullewa , 24–26.viii.1985, T.F. Houston off Conosperma scoparium blossom ( QM) .

Additional material examined: 1♀ South Australia: 50 k W Emu .

Months collected: August, September, October.

Floral visitations: Amaranthaceae : Ptilotus ; Asphodelaceae : Asphodelus fistulosus ; Asteraceae : Rhodanthe charsleyae , Schoenia cassiniana ; Fabaceae : Acacia , Senna ; Proteaceae : Conospermum scoparium , Grevillea didymobotrya ; Solanaceae : Solanum costiliferum ; Myrtaceae : Eucalyptus oldfieldii , Melaleuca nematophylla .

Female — Length ca 11 mm. Head— Hair of vertex and upper frons black, long, sparse, open branched; lower frons and paraocular area with moderately dense, white long, branched hair; clypeus with white, sparse, fine, weakly branched hair; F1 length more than 3 x maximum width; lower clypeal margin evenly convex; labrum with basal area shallowly depressed medially, strong ridge dividing from apical area, apical area strongly depressed with a row of strong apical setae, mandibles slender with pollex weakly defined apically; gena wider than eye when head viewed laterally. Mesosoma — Hair long, white, sparse, fine branched, propodeal triangle coriaceous; inner hind tibial spur with 6 long, coarse, well spaced teeth. Metasoma— Metasoma covered in long, dense, white and black hair; T3–4 with furrows that extend from base to apical margin. Male — Length ca 12 mm. Head— F1 more than 4 x maximum width; hair of vertex and frons black, sparse, finely branched; paraocular and clypeus with dense, appressed, long, white hair; ventral clypeal margin strongly concave; labrum length, half width, basal area polished not defined by carina or ridge, ventral margin concave, margin fringed with long, thick setae. Mesosoma — Fore femur and tibia tumid; fore basitarsus flattened and broadened, anterior with a dense fringe of long, thick hair; malus of fore tibial spur not extended beyond apex of velum; mid legs modified in a similar fashion to fore legs, but to a lesser extent with anterior fringe; hind legs slightly swollen. Metasoma— very broad and flat medially; narrow basally and apically. For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 100–102.

QM

Queensland Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Leioproctus

Loc

Leioproctus (Alokocolletes) excubitor Houston, 1991

Maynard, Glynn Vivian 2013
2013
Loc

Leioproctus (Leioproctus) excubitor * Houston 1991: 84

Houston, T. F. 1991: 84
1991
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