Asciocolletes Engel, new genus

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 5F34B567-E1BE-4E58-8EE1-B476AAB0DD6E

TYPE SPECIES: Paracolletes opaculus Cockerell, 1929 .

DIAGNOSIS: This genus resembles to some degree Ceratocolletes Michener but differs in the weakly protuberant clypeus lacking a shining mediolongitudinal convexity, malar space space present but exceptionally short, absence of apical setal bands in females, the metasomal terga not densely punctate, and the apical marginal zones differently sculptured relative to the tergal discs.

ETYMOLOGY: The new genus-group name is a combination of the Ancient Greek adjective áskios (ἄσκῐος, meaning, “shady”) and kollitís (κολλητής, meaning, “gluer” or “one who glues"). The gender of the name is masculine.