Colletes latefasciatus : Friese 1925
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes latefasciatus

description: Colletes latefasciatus Friese, 1925   
Fig. 42  
 Colletes latefasciatus: Friese 1925: 524. Type locality: South Africa, Capland.   
Diagnosis: Female readily identifiable by the very broad, conspicuous, yellowish posterior tergal fringes.  
Description:  
 Female.   
Length 12–13 mm.  
 Vestiture: Face white to greyish white with blackish hairs intermixed on vertex; mesonotum with short, yellowish white hairs intermixed with numerous longer blackish hairs; sides of mesosomal and legs yellowish to greyish white, scutellum and metanotum with short, yellowish brown hairs, intermixed with longer blackish hairs on scutellum; scopa dark brown dorsally, yellowish brown ventrally; T1 sparsely clothed with short, erect yellowish white hairs; disc of T2 very densely hirsute, with very short, yellowish brown hairs; discs of T3–T5 with successively longer erect, blackish hairs; very broad yellow to yellowish brown posterior tergal fringes on T2–T4, distinctively narrower on T1 and T5, consisting of very short (but longer than in C. fasciatus), dense pilosity; T2 without basal tomentum; S2 with sparse fringe of long, yellowish white hairs, shorter and less developed on S3–S4 on which hairs are longer laterally than medially, S5 clothed with long, brownish hairs.   
Integument: Completely black, except tarsi sometimes slightly brownish and T1 posteriorly broadly translucent; malar area short, length about 1/2 width of mandibular base; clypeus with dense (0.2 pd), medium-sized punctures, punctures slightly elongate forming indistinct more or less U-shaped carinae on lower part of clypeus; integument between punctures glabrous; facial fovea narrow, maximum width about 3/4 antennal diameter; disc of mesonotum with dense (0.5–1 pd), coarse punctation, integument glabrous between punctures, surrounded by dense (<0.5 pd) punctation; upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short longitudinal carinae, vertical part superficially shagreened and slightly dull; disc of T1 with distinct, fine, very dense (<0.5 pd) punctation, punctures becoming finer, more shallow and denser towards posterior tergal depression, nearly disappearing on posterior margin; disc of T2 with very fine, dense (<0.5 pd) punctation; integument between punctures glabrous.  
 Male. Unknown.   
 Type material examined: Colletes latefasciatus, ^lectotype: ‘Capland, Colletes latefasciatus 1910 Friese det., Type, Coll. Friese’ (ZMHB).   
 Additional material examined: 24^. SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: 18^Leliefontein, 2.x.1995, F.W. & S.K. Gess, on pink Ruschia (AMGS, CMK); Western Cape: 2^Ysterfontein, 1.ix.1960 (SAMC); 4^Pakhuis Pass, 7.ix.1987, C.D. Eardley (SANC).   
Distribution: Scattered records from much of the winter rainfall area (Fig. 42).  
 Flower visiting: Ruschia sp. (Aizoaceae).   
 Phenology: First record 1 st September, last record 2 nd October.
description: Published as part of Kuhlmann, Michael, 2007, Revision of the bees of the Colletes fasciatus-group in southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), pp. 121-166 in African Invertebrates 48 (2) on pages 153-154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7667881