Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) dentiger
Creators: name: Maynard, Glynn Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Leioproctus
Leioproctus dentiger

description: Leioproctus (Lamprocolletes) dentiger (Cockerell, 1910)   
 Paracolletes dentiger * Cockerell 1910a: 199–200, 206; 1914b: 41; 1934: 25.   
 Paracolletes subvigilans * Cockerell 1914b: 45; 1934: 36. syn.n.   
 Leioproctus (Nodocolletes) dentiger (Cockerell). Michener, 1965: 63, figs 123–125.   
 Leioproctus (Nodocolletes) subvigilans (Cockerell). Michener, 1965: 63.   
 The holotype of Paracolletes subvigilans is the female of Paracolletes dentiger. The sexes have been associated by morphological similarity (they both lack a defined anterior margin to the hind basitibial plate, amongst other characters) and coincident collection data.   
 Types   
 Paracolletes dentiger — holotype ♂, New Holland (ZMB 1952).   
 Paracolletes subvigilans — Western Australia: ♀, Yallingup, Cape Naturaliste, 14.ix.–31.x.1913, R.E. Turner (BMNH 17 a.448).   
 Additional material examined: 3♀, 1♂ Western Australia: Bunbury; Yallingup; Yallingup.   
 Months collected: September, October, November.   
 Floral visitations: None recorded.   
  Female —  Length ca 12 mm; entire body strongly punctate; dark metallic blue. Head— Facial fovea indicated by smooth area, margins distinct; vertex short, supraclypeal area strongly raised but not apically tuberculate; paraocular area about equal to width of eye at level of antennal sockets; scape reaching beyond median ocellus; clypeus strongly rounded; the exposed labrum is almost as long as wide, shallowly depressed medially; gena wider than eye viewed laterally; lower paraocular and lateral supraclypeal area with moderately dense, white, open branched hair; clypeus with sparse, long, simple hair. Mesosoma — Dorsally hair mostly short, black, white around margins of scutum and scutellum; laterally hair mostly white; metanotum with large, thick nodule with black upper and white lower hair; basal area of propodeal triangle indicated by several short, transverse ridges. Wings with membrane darkened, hind wing with jugal lobe reaching beyond cu-v; pterostigma slender, long about 0.2 x length of costal margin of marginal cell. Legs with anterior margin of hind basitibial plate not clearly defined, hair of basitibial plate branched; hair of anterior hind tibial scopa monopodal; inner hind tibial spur straight with 6 fine teeth. Metasoma— T1 with sparse, long, branched hair; other segments with short, simple hair; prepygidial fimbria dense, thick, black; pygidial plate broad flat, straight apically with a few basal striae; ventral surface with moderately dense, long, white, branched hairs.  Male —  As for female except as follows: Length ca 11 mm. Head— Lower paraocular area with appressed, dense, white hair; flagellum moderate length. Mesosoma — Legs black.   
 Metasoma— Sternal fringes absent. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 151–153.
description: Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387