Patellapis (Patellapis) mandela, Timmermann & Kuhlmann, 2009

Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, Zootaxa 2099, pp. 1-188 : 68-69

Patellapis (Patellapis) mandela sp. n. Timmermann

( Figs. 42a–g )

Diagnosis. The females are morphologically characterised by the strongly curled outer hind tibial spur, which is unique within the subgenus Patellapis . The male is unknown.

Description

Female. Bl = 6,4–6,6mm. General habitus ( Fig. 42e ). Head. L = 1,7–1,8mm; W = 1,8–1,9mm. Head about as wide as long ( Fig. 42a ). Integument black except mandibles and malar area usually partly reddishbrown. Face shiny and with loose, long, greyish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus moderately strongly and densely punctate; surface shiny. Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Supraclypeal area sparsely punctate; surface shiny and extensively sculptured marginally. Paraocular area shiny; strongly and densely punctate; surface extensively sculptured. Antennae blackishbrown. Mesosoma. L = 1,4–1,5mm; W (ITS) = 1,5–1,7mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; disc densely punctate (i = d); surface partly sculptured anteriorly ( Fig. 42b ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 42c . Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 42c ; propodeum shiny; densely punctate; surface usually extensively sculptured. Marginal region of posterior truncation slightly shiny and completely reticulate. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument blackish-brown. Vestiture greyish to brownish. Ts finely serrate; outer hind tibial spur strongly and markedly curled apically ( Fig. 42f ). Bp broad and rounded apically ( Fig. 42g ). Metasoma. L = 3,4–3,5mm; W = 2,1–2,2mm. Integument blackish-brown; margins of T pallid brownish and pale; margins broadly translucent. T2–T4 with weak, inconspicuous, greyish, apical hair bands; the bands mostly present laterally. Prepygidial fimbria mostly yellowish ( Fig. 42d ).

Male. Unknown.

Type material ( 35 specimens). Holotype, female, South Africa, Northern Cape, Richtersveld N Park Koeroegabvlakte, 17.–21.ix. and 24.ix.1995, leg. F.W., S.K. and R. W. Gess, AMGS.

Paratypes: 34♀. South Africa. Northern Cape: Richtersveld N Park Koeroegabvlakte, 17.–21.ix. and 24.ix.1995, leg. F.W., S.K. and R . W. Gess, AMGS .

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the former president of South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (* 18 July 1918).

Distribution ( Fig. 43 ). Records only exist from the Richtersveld National Park.

Floral visitation. Hermbstaedtia glauca (Amaranthaceae) , Trichodesma africanum (Boraginaceae) , Codon royenii (Hydrophyllaceae) , Zygophyllum prismatocarpum (Zygophyllaceae) .

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). ix.

Figures

FIGURE 42. Patellapis (P.) mandela, female: a. Head (scale=1mm); b. Scutum (scale=1mm); c. Scutellum and propodeum (scale=0,5mm); d. Metasomal terga (scale=1mm); e. Body (scale=1mm); f. Inner hind tibial spur (scale=100µm); g. Basitibial plate (scale=100µm).

FIGURE 43. Distributions of P. karooensis, P.leonis, P. longifacies and P. mandela.