Scrapter bokkeveldensis 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 bokkeveldensis

description: Scrapter bokkeveldensis Kuhlmann sp. nov.
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Fig. 2
Diagnosis
The female of S. bokkeveldensis 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, sparsely and coarsely punctate (Fig. 2B); scutum relatively densely and coarsely punctate (Fig. 2C); propodeum only laterally with distinct but fine carination (Fig. 2D); stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga black; terga finely and densely punctate (Fig. 2E). The male is unknown.
Etymology
Named after the Bokkeveld Plateau that stretches along the escarpment north and south of Nieuwoudtville.
Material examined (1 specimen)
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; 12 km NW of Nieuwoudtville, Farm Avontuur, Fynbos; 31°16′18″ S, 19°02′55″ E; alt. 770 m a.s.l.; 9 Sep. 2018; MK leg; RCMK.
Description
Female
BODY LENGTH. 4.3 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. 2B). Clypeus slightly convex with coarse and relatively sparse (i = 1–3 d) punctation; surface between punctures superficially sculptured but shiny (Fig. 2B). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally blackish-brown, ventrally yellowish-brown.
MESOSOMA. Integument black, tegula dark reddish-brown. Mesoscutal disc between punctures superficially shagreened and slightly matt; disc relatively densely (i = 1–2 d) but relatively coarsely punctate (Fig. 2C). Metanotum about as long as basal area of propodeum, apically with distinct narrow carinate depression (Fig. 2D). Propodeum basally only laterally distinctly but relatively finely carinate (Fig. 2D). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair (Fig. 2A).
WINGS. Brownish; wing venation and stigma brown.
LEGS. Integument black. Vestiture greyish to yellowish-brown; scopa greyish-white, dorsally brownish.
METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga broadly black to translucent dark reddish-brown (Fig. 2E). Disc of T1–T2 without hair; following terga with very short but increasingly more and longer hair; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga (Fig. 2E). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae relatively short, brownish. T1–T4 densely (i = 0.5–1 d) and relatively coarsely punctate, T1–T2 between punctures smooth and shiny, T3–T4 between punctures superficially reticulate but shiny; T2–T4 with polished and shiny apical tergal depression (Fig. 2E).
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Only known from the type locality north of Nieuwoudtville.
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 5-7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.647, http://zenodo.org/record/3836052