Patellapis (Chaetalictus) dispositina
Creators: name: Timmermann, Kim
name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Patellapis
Patellapis dispositina

description: Patellapis (Chaetalictus) dispositina (Cockerell 1934)   
 Halictus dispositinus Cockerell, 1934: 114–115.   
(Figs. 116a–g)  
 Diagnosis. The male is unknown. The female is characterised by the small body length, a densely punctate scutum, a finely serrate inner hind tibial spur and the margins of metasomal terga broadly translucent.   
 Description   
 Female. Bl = 4,4–4,5mm. General habitus (Fig. 116e). Head. L = 1,3–1,4mm; W = 1,4–1,5mm. Head about as wide as long (Fig. 116a). Integument black except mandibles, malar area and clypeus sometimes partly reddish-brown. Face predominantly shiny and with loose, pallid yellowish and greyish, erect hairs. Mandibles bidentate. Clypeus and supraclypeal area convex in profile. Clypeus finely and sparsely punctate; surface shiny. Clypeoantennal distance 0,2–0,3mm. Supraclypeal area with a few well separated punctures; surface usually completely reticulate (sometimes finely and partly reticulate). Paraocular area sparsely punctate; surface extensively and strongly sculptured. Antennae brownish. Mesosoma. L = 0,8–0,9mm; W (ITS) = 1,0mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; surface finely and extensively reticulate; disc densely punctate (i = d) (Fig. 116b). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 116c. Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with greyish and pallid brownish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 116c; propodeum and marginal region of posterior truncation slightly shiny; surface completely reticulate. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument reddish-brown. Vestiture mostly greyish. Ts finely serrate, with 6–7 small, oblique projections (Fig. 116f). Bp as illustrated in Fig. 116g. Metasoma. L = 2,4–2,5mm; W = 1,4–1,5mm. Integument brownish-black except the margins of T pallid brownish to pale; broadly translucent. No apical hair bands on metasomal terga. Prepygidial fimbria yellowish-brown. Metasomal terga as illustrated in Fig. 116d.   
 Male. Unknown.   
 Type material (1 specimen). Holotype, female, Eastern Cape: Uitenhage, x.1930, Ckll. (white label), Halictus dispositinus Ckll. TYPE (handwritten white label), Pres. by Imp. Inst. Ent. B.M. 1934–223 (white label), Type (red-white label), B.M. TYPE HYM. 17.a.805 (white label), BMNH.   
 Additional material (23 specimens). 23♀. South Africa, Western Cape: 10♀, Mossel Bay, x.1933, leg. R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1933–552, BMNH; 1♀, idem., 31.x.1938, Brit. Mus. 1939–56, BMNH; 2♀, 41 miles E Barrydale, 13.xi.1966, leg. C.D. Michener and J.G. Rozen, SEMC and AMNH; 3♀, Worcester, ix.1928, leg. R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1928–457, BMNH; 1♀, idem., 03.–04.x.1928, leg. R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1928–491, BMNH; 1♀, idem., ix.–x.1931, Brit. Mus. 1931–528, BMNH; Eastern Cape: 2♀, Uitenhage, 30.x.1931, leg. J. Ogilvie, BMNH; 1♀, Hilton, Grahamstown, 18.x.1977, leg. F.W. Gess, AMGS; 1♀, idem., 03.xi.1077, AMGS; 1♀, 10 miles N Grahamstown, 20.xi.1966, leg. J.G. Rozen and D.J. Brothers, AMNH.   
 Distribution (Fig. 119). Recorded from the southern part of South Africa (Western Cape and Eastern Cape).   
 Floral visitation. Lasiospermum bipinnatum (Asteraceae).   
 Seasonal activity (first–last observations). ix–xi.
description: Published as part of Timmermann, Kim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2009, Variable Selection and Inference for Multi-period Forecasting Problems, pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 2099 on pages 163-164, DOI: 10.17863/cam.5647, http://zenodo.org/record/5311462