Scrapter oubergensis 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 oubergensis

description: Scrapter oubergensis Kuhlmann sp. nov.
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Fig. 9
Diagnosis
The female of S. oubergensis Kuhlmann sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: supraclypeal area and clypeus coarsely and densely punctate and shiny, only partly superficially sculptured and slightly matt (Fig. 9B); scutum coarsely but relatively densely punctate (Fig. 9C); basal area of propodeum medially about as long as metanotum (Fig. 9D); stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga black; terga densely and finely punctate (Fig. 9E). The male is unknown.
Etymology
Named after the Ouberg Pass southeast of Vanrhynsdorp.
Material examined (2 specimens)
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; Ouberg Pass, 27 km SE of Vanrhynsdorp, Fynbos; 31°48′07″ S, 18°55′00″ E; alt. 380 m a.s.l.; 24 Sep. 2014; MK leg.; RCMK.
Paratype
SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; same collections data as for holotype; MK leg.; RCMK.
Description
Female
BODY LENGTH. 5.4 mm.
HEAD. Head wider than long. Integument black, except part of mandibles dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 9B). Clypeus slightly convex with coarse and relatively dense (i = 1–2 d) punctation; surface between punctures superficially sculptured but shiny (Fig. 9B). 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 slightly matt; disc sparsely (i = 1.5–2.5 d) and coarsely punctate (Fig. 9C). Metanotum slightly shorter than basal area of propodeum, apically with distinct narrow carinate depression (Fig. 9D). Propodeum basally broadly and coarsely carinate (Fig. 9D). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 9A).
WINGS. Yellowish-brown; wing venation and stigma brown.
LEGS. Integument black. Vestiture greyish-brown; scopa greyish-white, dorsally brownish.
METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga narrowly black to translucent dark reddish-brown (Fig. 9E). 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. 9E); prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae relatively short, blackish-brown. T1 finely and densely (i = d) punctate, between punctures smooth and shiny; T2– T4 slightly coarser punctate; T2 between punctures basally superficially reticulate but shiny, apically smooth; T3–T4 between punctures superficially reticulate and slightly matt; T2–T4 with polished to superficially sculptured, but shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 9E).
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Only known from the type locality, a mountain pass in the southern Knersvlakte SE of Vanrhynsdorp.
Floral hosts
Brassicaceae: blue 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 20-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.647, http://zenodo.org/record/3836052