Colletes zygophyllum Kuhlmann 2007, sp. n.
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes zygophyllum

description: Colletes zygophyllum sp. n.   Fig. 43  
 Etymology: Named for the plant genus Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae) that is the preferred pollen source of this species.   
Diagnosis:The species is well characterised by the broad white to whitish brown posterior tergal bands.  
Description:  
 Female.   
Length 12–13 mm.  
Vestiture: Face yellowish brown with blackish hairs intermixed along inner eye margins and on vertex; mesonotum with short, yellowish brown hairs intermixed with numerous longer, blackish hairs; mesosomal sides and legs yellowish to yellowish brown, scutellum and metanotum with short orange-brown hairs, scutellum with orange-brown intermixed with longer blackish hairs; scopa dark brown dorsally and yellowish brown ventrally; T1 densely covered with long, erect, yellowish brown hairs; disc of T2 very densely covered with very short, brownish hairs; discs of T3–T5 with successively longer, short, erect, blackish hairs; very broad whitish to whitish brown posterior tergal hair bands on T2–T4, distinctively narrower on T1 (narrowed medially) and T5; T2 with very narrow, indistinct basal tomentum; S2–S4 with sparse fringe of longer, yellowish white hairs, discs covered with long hairs.  
Integument: Completely black, except tarsi sometimes slightly brownish and T1 narrowly translucent posteriorly; malar area short, length about 1/2 width of mandibular base; clypeus with dense (0.2 pd), medium-sized punctures, punctures slightly elongate but with straight orientation;integument between punctures smooth and shiny; facial fovea narrow,maximum width about 3/4 of antennal diameter; disc of mesonotum without or with very scattered (2–3 pd), coarse punctation, integument smooth and shiny, surrounded by dense (<0.5 pd) punctation; upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short, longitudinal carinae, vertical part superficially shagreened and slightly dull; disc of T1 with distinct, fine, dense (0.5–1 pd) punctation, punctures becoming finer, more shallow and denser towards posterior tergal depression, nearly disappearing at margin; disc of T2 with fine, dense (<0.5 pd) punctation; integument between punctures smooth and shiny.  
 Male. Unknown.   
 Holotype: ^SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve, 27.viii.1984, V. B. Whitehead & M. Macpherson, on Zygophyllum (SAMC).   
 Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: 2^same data as holotype (SAMC); 1^Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve, 29.viii.1984, V.B. Whitehead & M. Macpherson, on Zygophyllum (CMK); 1^Sutherland, 29.7 km NW, 22.ix.1985, V. B.Whitehead (SAMC); 1^Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve, 730 m, 1.ix.2002, M. Kuhlmann (CMK); 2^5.ix.2002, 2^12.ix.2002, 3^13.ix.2002, 1^16.ix.2002, idem; 1^Nieuwoudtville, Wild Flower Reserve East, 735 m, 12.viii.2004, M. Kuhlmann (CMK); 1^21.viii.2004, idem.   
Distribution: This species is only known from the south-central part of the winter rainfall area (Fig. 43).  
 Flower visiting: Zygophyllum sp. (Zygophyllaceae).   
 Phenology: First record 12 th August, last record 22 nd September.   
 Remarks: This species is treated as Colletes sp. G in Kuhlmann (2006).
description: Published as part of Kuhlmann, Michael, 2007, Revision of the bees of the Colletes fasciatus-group in southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), pp. 121-166 in African Invertebrates 48 (2) on pages 163-164, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7667881