Colletes knersvlaktei Kuhlmann 2007, sp. n.
Creators: name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes knersvlaktei

description: Colletes knersvlaktei sp. n.   Figs 28, 29, 42  
Etymology: Named for the Knersvlakte, a landscape around Vanrhynsdorp renowned for its rich succulent flora.  
Diagnosis: Male is best identified by the unique shape of S7 (Fig. 28).  
Description:  
 Female. Unknown.   
 Male. Length 10–11 mm.   
Vestiture: Face greyish white to white, with a few brown hairs intermixed on vertex; mesonotum with long, greyish white hairs, with a few brown hairs on posterior half; mesosomal sides and legs white, scutellum and metanotum with long, yellowish brown hairs, intermixed with black on scutellum; hind femora with a dense row of yellowish brown, erect hairs of equal length more or less on longitudinal axis basoventrally; T1 densely covered with long, erect, yellowish brown hairs; disc of T2 with shorter concolorous hairs; discs of T3–T6 with long, erect, blackish hairs; T1–T4 with narrow, very sparse, white posterior tergal fringes, very sparse on T5; S2–S5 with dense, long fringes, laterally broader than medially, discs with numerous long, erect, white hairs.  
Integument: Completely black, except antenna brown ventrally, legs and tarsi partly reddish brown and terga very narrowly translucent posteriorly; malar area short, about 3/4 width of mandibular base; clypeus with very dense (<0.2 pd), small punctures; facial fovea narrow, maximum width about 1/2 antennal diameter; disc of mesonotum with fine, dense punctation (0.5–1 pd), integument between punctures glabrous, surrounded by relatively dense punctation (0.5–1 pd); upper sloping part of propodeal triangle with short, longitudinal carinae, vertical part slightly shagreened, shiny, with few short, indistinct more or less transverse carinae; mid and hind femora slightly swollen; hind basitarsus modified, slightly bent longitudinally, and broadened apically, with prominent, long, reddish bristles on dorsoapical edge; integument of terga finely granular and shiny, less pronounced on nearly smooth posterior tergal depression; S6 basolaterally with a flattened, thick, stout backwards directed spine; shape of S7 as illustrated (Fig. 28) and shape of gonostylus as in Fig. 29.  
 Holotype: ơ SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape: Steinkopf, L. Schultze S., identified by Friese as Colletes schultzei (TMSA).   
 Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape: 1ơ Vanrhynsdorp, vii–viii.1927, G. v. Son (TMSA); 1ơ Darling, 22.viii.1999, P.Goldblatt, on Ixia scillaris (SEMC); 1ơ Clanwilliam, 10 km N, 30.vii.1983, V. B. Whitehead, on Griellum, pink Ruschia (SAMC); 1ơ Eland’s Bay, 30.vii.1987, V. B. Whitehead (SAMC); 1ơ Graafwater, 5 km W, 2.vi.1984, V. B. Whitehead (SAMC); 1ơ Clanwilliam, Ramskop, 9.vii.1984, V. B. Whitehead, on pink Ruschia (CMK); 1ơ Graafwater, 5 km W, 21.vi.1984, V. B. Whitehead (CMK).   
Distribution: Scattered records from much of the winter rainfall area (Fig. 42).  
 Flower visiting: Ruschia sp. (Aizoaceae), Ixia scillaris (Iridaceae), Grielum sp. (Neuradaceae).   
 Phenology: First record 2 nd June, last record 22 nd August.
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 152-153, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7667881