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

description: Patellapis (Chaetalictus) sabinae sp. n. Timmermann   
(Figs. 57a–f)  
 Diagnosis. The males of this species are similar to those of P. stoeberia, but P. sabinae differ markedly from P. stoeberia in having a larger body length and in the structure of the basal area of propodeum, which is coarsely wrinkled in P. sabinae and finely wrinkled and extensively reticulate in P. stoeberia. The female of P.sabinae is unknown.   
 Description   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Male. Bl = 6,2–6,4mm. General habitus (Fig. 57e). Head. L = 1,8–1,9mm; W = 1,7–1,8mm. Head about as long as wide; face slightly elongate (Fig. 57a). Integument black except mandibles, malar area and clypeus sometimes partly reddish-brown. Clypeus, supraclypeal area, paraocular area and vertex covered with erect, whitish to greyish hairs. Mandibles simple. Antennae brownish-black. Flagellomeres of normal structure, not knotty. A4 about as long as A3. Mesosoma. L = 1,3–1,4mm; W (ITS) = 1,5–1,6mm. Integument black. Scutum shiny; finely and sparsely punctate (i = 2,0–3,0d) (Fig. 57b). Scutellum as illustrated in Fig. 57c. Scutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum with long, whitish to greyish, erect hairs. Basal area of propodeum as illustrated in Fig. 57c; propodeum slightly dull, with punctures well separated; surface strongly sculptured. Marginal region of posterior truncation slightly dull; surface reticulate and partly wrinkled. Wings. Hyaline. Legs. Integument brownish. Vestiture whitish to greyish. Metasoma. L = 3,2–3,7mm; W = 2,2–2,3mm. Integument brownish-black except the margins of T pallid brownish to pale; margins broadly translucent. Metasomal terga T1–T2 as illustrated in Fig. 57d. Apical plate broad; rounded apically. Posterior margin of S4with a row of 14 long, weak, erect bristles. Metasomal sterna S5–S6 without dense hair patches. Genitalia. Genitalia as illustrated in Fig. 57f; gonocoxa partly dull; gonostylus with dorsolateral, slender, hyaline projection; projection with a row of about 10 long, feathered hairs.   
 Type material (4 specimens). Holotype, male, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Hilton, Grahamstown, 20.x.1977, leg. F.W. Gess, on flowers of Lasiospermum bipinnatum (handwritten), No. 77/78/24, AMGS.   
Paratypes: 3♂. South Africa. Western Cape: 1♂, 3222BC, Beaufort West, Karoo National Park, 12.iv.1988, leg. V. B. Whitehead, SAM – HYM – B009632, SAMC; Eastern Cape: 1♂, Hilton, Grahamstown, 19.ix.1977, leg. F.W. Gess, No. 77/78/3, AMGS; 1♂, Queenstown, 16.i.–10.ii.1923, leg. R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus. 1923–140, BMNH.  
 Etymology. Named after Sabine Schulz, Cologne.   
 Distribution (Fig. 60). Few records exist from the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.   
 Floral visitation. Lasiospermum bipinnatum (Asteraceae).   
 Seasonal activity (first–last observations). i–x.
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 89-90, DOI: 10.17863/cam.5647, http://zenodo.org/record/5311462