Colletes ascopalis Zabel & Kuhlmann 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zabel, Tina
name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes ascopalis

description: Colletes ascopalis sp. nov.
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Figs 8, 14
Diagnosis
Among the species with reduced scopa the female of Colletes ascopalis is characterized by a combination of legs completely red (Fig. 8A), facial fovea relatively broad (width about 1.5 × antennal diameter),
apical hair bands of terga 1–2 broad (Fig. 8D–E), medially nearly completely covering tergal depression (Fig. 8D–E) and upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short longitudinal carinae.
Etymology
This species is named for its reduced scopa.
Material examined
Holotype SOUTH AFRICA – Western Cape Province • ♀; Ysterfontein; 33°21′ S, 18°09′ E; Sep. 1960; South African Museum leg.; SAMC.
Paratypes SOUTH AFRICA – Northern Cape Province • 1 ♀; Leliefontein, slope; 30°13′58″ S, 18°09′ 52″ E; 31 Aug. 2003; C. Mayer leg.; white trap; CMK • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 11 Sep. 2003; CMK • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 15 Sep. 2003; CMK • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; slope 402/1; 5 Sep. 2003; pink trap; CMK • 1 ♀; Remhoogte, plain; 30°14′07″ S, 18°09′56″ E; 31 Aug. 2003; C. Mayer leg.; pink trap; CMK • 1 ♀; Leliefontein, plain; 30°13′54″ S, 18°09′45″ E; 11 Sep. 2003; C. Mayer leg.; white trap; CMK. – Western Cape Province • 2 ♀♀; Ysterfontein; 33°21′ S, 18°09′ E; Sep. 1960; South African Museum leg.; CMK.
Description
Female
BODY LENGTH. 11–12 mm.
HEAD. Integument black, antenna brown ventrally. Face with short grayish white hairs (Fig. 8B), brown on vertex. Clypeus with fine, dense (<0.2 pd) medium-sized, slightly elongate punctures. Malar area very narrow, about ⅓ width of mandibular base. Facial fovea relatively broad, maximum width about 1.5 × antennal diameter.
MESOSOMA. Integument black, coxa and trochanter brown, femur, tibia and tarsi red (Fig. 8A). Scutum with short yellowish brown hairs with numerous slightly longer dark brown hairs intermixed. Mesosomal sides grayish white, few light brown hairs on mesepisternum, legs with yellowish white hairs. Disc of scutum with relative dense (0.5–1 pd) punctation, surrounded by dense (<0.5 pd) punctation, interspaces glabrous (Fig. 8C). Scutellum and metanotum with short yellowish brown hairs, intermixed with longer dark brown hairs on scutellum, plumose on scutellum and medially on metanotum. Upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short, longitudinal carinae. Vertical part superficially shagreened and shiny, anterior with a few more or less transverse well-developed carinae. Scopa partly reduced, dorsal dark brown and ventral yellowish white (Fig. 8F).
METASOMA. Integument black, terga broadly yellowish to reddish translucent posteriorly. T1–T2 with slight bluish shine. Disc of T1 covered with moderately long, erect white hairs, medio-anteriorly with short hairs interspersed (Fig. 8D). Disc of T2 with very short, erect yellowish hairs. T2 with well-developed, relatively broad white basal tomentum (Fig. 8D). Discs of T3–T5 with successively longer, short erect blackish hairs. T1–T5 with white relatively broad posterior tergal hair bands, medially narrower on T1 (Fig. 8E). Disc of T1 with fine and dense punctation (0.5–1 pd), punctures becoming slightly finer and denser on posterior tergal depression, interspaces glabrous (Fig. 8D). Disc of T2 with very fine, dense punctation (<0.5 pd). S2–S5 short white hair fringes, medially very small. Disc of sterna sparsely covered with anterior directed hairs, longer laterally.
Male
Unknown.
Distribution
Found from the Kamiesberg Mountains in the north down to Ysterfontein in the south (Fig. 14).
Phenology
Recorded in August and September.
description: Published as part of Zabel, Tina & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the southern African Colletes fasciatus species group (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), pp. 1-96 in European Journal of Taxonomy 899 on pages 11-13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.899.2297, http://zenodo.org/record/8413282