Patellapis (Chaetalictus) pastinella
Creators: name: Timmermann, Kim
name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Patellapis
Patellapis pastinella

description: Patellapis (Chaetalictus) pastinella (Cockerell 1939)   
 Halictus pastinellus Cockerell, 1939e: 510.   
 Halictus micropastinus Cockerell, 1940b: 249–250. Syn. n.   
(Figs. 75a–g)  
 Diagnosis. The male is unknown. The female is similar to those of P. pondoensis and P. disposita. P. pastinella differs from P. pondoensis in the larger body length and from P. disposita in the lack of an oily bluish shine on the scutum. P. pearstonensis, P. chubbi and P. cinctifera differ from P. pastinella in having reddish metasomal terga.   
 Description   
 Female. Bl = 5,1–5,3mm. General habitus (Fig. 75e). Head. L = 1,5–1,6mm; W = 1,8–1,9mm. Head wider than long (Fig. 75a). Integument black except mandibles, malar area and clypeus sometimes partly reddish-brown. Face predominantly shiny and with loose, greyish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus strongly and densely punctate; clypeoantennal distance 0,3mm. Supraclypeal area with a few well separated punctures; surface completely reticulate. Paraocular area strongly and densely punctate; surface extensively and strongly sculptured. Antennae brownish. Mesosoma. L = 1,0– 1,1mm; W (ITS) = 1,2–1,3mm. Integument black. Scutum slightly dull; surface completely reticulate; disc finely and sparsely punctate (i = 2,0–2,5d) (Fig. 75b). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 75c. Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with mostly greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 75c; propodeum shiny; surface finely sculptured. Marginal region of posterior truncation shiny; reticulate and partly wrinkled. Wings. Slightly fuscouse. Legs. Integument brownish. Vestiture greyish to dark greyish. Ts strongly serrate, with 5 to 6, oblique projections (Fig. 75f). Bp as illustrated (Fig. 75g). Metasoma. L = 2,7–2,8mm; W = 1,7–1,9mm. Integument brownish-black except the margins of T pallid brownish to yellowish; margins partly translucent. No apical hair bands on metasomal terga. Prepygidial fimbria brownish. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 75d.   
 Male. Unknown.   
 Type material (4 specimens). Holotype, female, Eastern Cape: Bosrand. Afdelling Farm. 29.iii.1934. J. Ogilvie (white label), Brit. Mus. 1934–274 (white label), Type (red-white label), B.M. TYPE HYM. 17a.808 (white label), Halictus pastinellus Ckll Type (handwritten white label), BMNH; Holotype, 1♀, Halictus micropastinus Ckll Type, National Park. 3–15.iii.1932, A. Mackie, B.M. TYPE HYM. 17a.2602, BMNH.   
Paratypes, Halictus pastinellus: 2♀. South Africa. Free State: 1♀, North Bank Halt, Norvals Pont., 13.iv.1934, leg. L. Ogilvie, Brit. Mus. 1934–274., BMNH; 1♀, idem., 14.iv.1934, BMNH.  
 Additional material (35 specimens). 35♀. South Africa, KwaZulu – Natal: 1♀, Coleford Nature Reserve, 16.xi.1981, leg. S.J. van Tonder and C. Kok, HYMA06761, SANC; 3♀, Royal Natal National Park, 06.–10.xii.1984, leg. J.G.H. Londt, HYMA06844, SANC; 1♀, Silverton, 11.x.1965, HYMA06857, SANC; 1♀, Nagle Dam 17 miles E Pietermaritzburg, 05.i.1967, leg. C.D. Michener and D.I. Brothers, SEMC; 2♀, Cathedral Peak Forestry Area, 10.xi.1981, leg. S.J. V. Tonder and C. Kok, SANC; 1♀, Hluhluwe Reserve, 09.iii.1967, leg. C.D. Michener, SEMC; Gauteng: 1♀, Johannesburg, 07.xii.1961, HYMA06856, SANC; 4♀, Pretoria, 14.viii.1980, leg. C.G. Moolman, HYMA06747, SANC; 1♀, idem., 12.ii.1980, leg. C.G. Moolman and W. Harrop, SANC; 2♀, idem., 08.ii.1994, leg. C.D. Eardley, SANC; 1♀, idem., 09.i.1980, leg. S.J. van Tonder, HYMA06849, SANC; 1♀, Saltpan, 31.xii.1985, leg. C.D. Eardley, HYMA07269, SANC; North West: 2♀, Rustenburg Nature Reserve, 23.–26.ii.1981, leg. C.D. Eardley, HYMA06874, SANC; 1♀, idem., 08.xii.1983, HYMA06703, SANC; Free State: 1♀, Adullam Farm, near Clarens, 20.–26.ii.1980, leg. S.J. van Tonder, HYMA06824, SANC; 2♀, Harrismith, ii.–iii.1927, leg. R. E. Turner, BMNH; Limpopo: 3♀, Lekgalameetse Nat. Reserve, 13.ii.1989, leg. V. M. Uys, HYMA07869, SANC; 2♀, Entabeni Forest Res., Soutpansberg, 07.–11.i.1987, leg. C.D. Eardley, HYMA07284, SANC; 4♀, idem., 03.–07.xi.1980, leg. M.W. Mansell, W.A. Harrop and R. S. du Plessis, HYMA06830, SANC; 1♀, idem., xi.1978, leg. G.L. Prinsloo, SANC.   
 Distribution (Fig. 76). Records exist only from the east and north-east of South Africa (Eastern Cape, KwaZulu–Natal, North West, Gauteng, Limpopo and Free State).   
 Floral visitation. Unknown.   
 Seasonal activity (first–last observations). i–xii.
description: Published as part of Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 2099 on pages 110-113, DOI: 10.17863/cam.5647, http://zenodo.org/record/5311462