Scrapter avontuurensis Kuhlmann, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Michael
name: Friehs, Thyra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Scrapter
Scrapter avontuurensis

description: Scrapter avontuurensis Kuhlmann sp. nov.
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Fig. 1
Diagnosis
The female of S. avontuurensis Kuhlmann sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: head distinctly broader than long; supraclypeal area and clypeus relatively sparsely and coarsely punctate, only partly superficially sculptured and slightly matt (Fig. 1B); scutum densely but relatively coarsely punctate (Fig. 1C); propodeum basally broadly and distinctly carinate (Fig. 1D); stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga broadly translucent dark reddish-brown; terga between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt (Fig. 1E). The male is unknown.
Etymology
Named after the Avontuur Nature Reserve where this species was discovered.
Material examined (1 specimen)
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; 12 km NW of Nieuwoudtville, Farm Avontuur, Fynbos; 31°16′18″ S, 19°02′55″ E; alt. 770 m a.s.l.; 25 Sep. 2014; MK leg.; RCMK.
Description
Female
BODY LENGTH. 5.3 mm.
HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black, except part of mandibles dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 1B). Clypeus strongly convex with coarse and medially relatively dense (i = 1–2 d) punctation and sparser (i = 2–4 d) punctation at margins; surface between punctures superficially sculptured and matt (Fig. 1B). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally blackish-brown, ventrally yellowish-brown.
MESOSOMA. Integument black, tegula dark reddish-brown. Mesoscutal disc between punctures reticulate and matt; disc relatively densely (i = 1–2 d) but coarsely punctate (Fig. 1C). Metanotum slightly shorter than basal area of propodeum, apically with distinct narrow carinate depression (Fig. 1D). Propodeum basally finely but broadly carinate (Fig. 1D). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 1A).
WINGS. Yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma brown.
LEGS. Integument black; fore tibia basally with small yellow spot. Vestiture greyish-white; scopa greyish-white, dorsally brownish.
METASOMA. Integument black, apical margin of first terga narrowly, margins of following terga broadly translucent dark reddish-brown (Fig. 1E). Disc of T1 and T2 glabrous; following terga with very short but increasingly more and longer hair; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga (Fig. 1E). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae sparse, yellowish-brown. T1–T3 finely and densely (i = d) punctate, between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt; T4 matt; T2–T4 with polished to superficially sculptured, but shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 1E).
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Only known from the type locality north of Nieuwoudtville.
Floral hosts
Brassicaceae: Heliophila spec.
Seasonal activity
September.
description: Published as part of Kuhlmann, Michael & Friehs, Thyra, 2020, Nine new species and new records of euryglossiform Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from South Africa, pp. 1-33 in European Journal of Taxonomy 647 on pages 3-5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.647, http://zenodo.org/record/3836052