Scrapter fynbosensis 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 fynbosensis

description: Scrapter fynbosensis Kuhlmann sp. nov.
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Fig. 3
Diagnosis
The female of S. fynbosensis Kuhlmann sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: supraclypeal area and clypeus superficially sculptured but shiny (Fig. 3B); scutum between punctures reticulate and matt (Fig. 3C); foretibia dominantly blackish; stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga broadly translucent yellowish-brown; terga between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt (Fig. 3E). The male is unknown.
Etymology
Named after the Fynbos biome where this species was discovered.
Material examined (1 specimen)
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; N Cape, 15 km NW of Nieuwoudtville, Farm Engelsepunt, Fynbos, Pf E1; 31°14′31″ S, 18°59′08″ E; alt. 830 m a.s.l.; 23 Jul. 2003; KT leg; RCMK.
Description
Female
BODY LENGTH. 5.2 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. 3B). Clypeus almost flat with relatively dense (i = 1–2 d) and shallow punctation; surface between punctures only partly sculptured and shiny (Fig. 3B). 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) and coarsely punctate (Fig. 3C). Metanotum about as long as basal area of propodeum, apically with broad carinate depression (Fig. 3D). Propodeum basally relatively finely carinate (Fig. 3D). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 3A).
WINGS. Yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma brown.
LEGS. Integument black; fore tibia anteriorly on basal half with small yellowish spot. Vestiture greyish-white; scopa greyish-white, dorsally brownish.
METASOMA. Integument black to dark reddish-brown, apical margins of terga broadly translucent yellowish to reddish-brown (Fig. 3E). Disc of T1 without hair; following terga with very short but increasingly more and longer hair; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga (Fig. 3E). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae yellowish-brown. Terga finely and densely (i = d) punctate, T1–T3 between punctures superficially sculptured and slightly matt; T4 matt; T2–T4 with polished to superficially sculptured, but shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 3E).
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Only known from the type locality north of Nieuwoudtville.
Floral hosts
Unknown.
Seasonal activity
July.
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 7-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.647, http://zenodo.org/record/3836052