Scrapter keiskiensis 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 keiskiensis

description: Scrapter keiskiensis Kuhlmann sp. nov.
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Fig. 5
Diagnosis
The female of S. keiskiensis 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 sculptured and matt, densely and distinctly punctate (Fig. 5B); scutum densely and relatively coarsely punctate (Fig. 5C); propodeum indistinctly and shallowly carinate (Fig. 5D); stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga black or only slightly translucent dark reddish-brown; terga between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt (Fig. 5E). The male is unknown.
Etymology
Named after the Keiski Mts south of Calvinia where this species was first collected.
Material examined (2 specimens)
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; Roggeveld Mts, 1,5 km S of Farm Allemansdam, Renosterveld; 31°49′25″ S, 19°59′38″ E; alt. 1285 m a.s.l.; 11 Sep. 2018; MK leg; RCMK.
Paratype
SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; Keiski Mts, 3 km E of Farm M´Vera, shale; 31°45′29″ S, 19°54′13″ E; alt. 1190 m a.s.l.; 13 Sep. 2016; MK leg; RCMK.
Description
Female
BODY LENGTH. 5.4 mm.
HEAD. Head distinctly wider than long. Integument black, except part of mandibles dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 5B). Clypeus slightly convex with dense (i = d) punctation, apically finer, basally coarser; surface between punctures sculptured and matt (Fig. 5B). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally blackish-brown, ventrally yellowish-brown.
MESOSOMA. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc between punctures reticulate and matt; disc densely (i = 0.5–1 d) and relatively finely punctate (Fig. 5C). Metanotum slightly shorter than basal area of propodeum, apically with narrow carinate depression (Fig. 5D). Propodeum basally distinct but very finely carinate (Fig. 5D). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 5A).
WINGS. Brownish; wing venation and stigma brown.
LEGS. Integument black. Vestiture greyish to yellowish; scopa greyish-white, dorsally brownish.
METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins on first terga narrow, on other terga broadly black to translucent dark reddish-brown (Fig. 5E). Disc of T1–T2 without hair; following terga with very short but increasingly more and longer hair; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga (Fig. 5E). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae relatively short, yellowish-brown. T1–T4 finely and densely (i = 0.5–1 d) punctate, between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt; T2–T4 with superficially reticulate but shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 5E).
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Only known from the northern extension of the Roggeveld Mts and the adjacent Keiski Mts.
Floral hosts
Aizoaceae: Galenia sarcophylla.
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 11-13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.647, http://zenodo.org/record/3836052