Patellapis (Patellapis) leonis (Cockerell 1940)
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https://doi.org/ 10.17863/cam.5647 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5318942 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AC484B04-FFAA-FFA2-1FE0-FECBFD60FD6A |
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Patellapis (Patellapis) leonis (Cockerell 1940) |
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Patellapis (Patellapis) leonis (Cockerell 1940) View in CoL
Halictus leonis Cockerell, 1940a: 90–91 .
( Figs. 40a–g View FIGURE 40 )
Diagnosis. The most similar species is P. longifacies . Both are characterised by the elongate face. They can be easily distinguished by the size and structure of the basitibial plate, which is broader and larger in P. longifacies than in P.leonis . The male of P. leonis is unknown.
Description
Female. Bl = 6,3mm. General habitus ( Fig. 40e View FIGURE 40 ). Head. L = 2,0mm; W = 2,0mm. Head as long as wide; face elongate ( Fig. 40a View FIGURE 40 ). Integument black except mandibles, clypeus, supraclypeal area and paraocular area partly blackish-brown. Face predominantly polished and with loose, greyish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus finely and sparsely punctate; surface shiny. Clypeoantennal distance 0,4mm. Supraclypeal area with a few, small punctures; punctures well separated; surface shiny. Paraocular area moderately strongly and densely punctate; surface partly sculptured; rather shiny. Antennae brownish-black. Mesosoma. L = 1,5mm; W (ITS) = 1,7mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; disc moderately strongly and densely punctate (i = d) ( Fig. 40b View FIGURE 40 ). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 40c View FIGURE 40 .
Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 40c View FIGURE 40 ; propodeum shiny, with minute punctures well separated; surface completely sculptured. Marginal region of posterior truncation shiny and completely reticulate. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish. Vestiture greyish. Ts moderately strongly serrate, with 5–6 oblique projections ( Fig. 40f View FIGURE 40 ). Bp narrow; pointed apically ( Fig. 40g View FIGURE 40 ). Metasoma. L = 3,4mm; W = 2,3mm. Integument blackish-brown except the margins of T pallid brownish and extensively translucent. Weak apical hair bands on T2–T3 (those on T1 only present laterally). Prepygidial fimbria yellowish-brown. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 40d View FIGURE 40 .
Male. Unknown.
Type material ( 1 specimen). Holotype, female, S. Africa. Cape Province, Lion Head Sea Point, 12.xii.1931, T. Ogilvie (handwritten white label), Type (red-white label), Halictus leonis Ckll Type (handwritten white label), B.M. TYPE HYM. 17a.2592 (white label), BMNH.
Distribution ( Fig. 43 View FIGURE 43 ). Only known from Lions Head in Cape Town.
Floral visitation. Unknown.
Seasonal activity (first–last observations). xii.
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Patellapis (Patellapis) leonis (Cockerell 1940)
Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael 2009 |
Halictus leonis
Cockerell, T. D. A. 1940: 91 |