Colletes flavicornis Morawitz 1876
- Dataset
- The genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) in Central Asia
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Colletidae
- genus
- Colletes
- species
- Colletes flavicornis
description
Description. Female. Bl = 10.0 – 11.0 mm. Head. Head wider than long. Integument black except part of mandible, apical part of malar area, labrum and part of clypeus dark reddish-brown. Face except clypeus densely covered with long, whitish-grey, erect hairs (Fig. 5 c – d). Clypeus distinctly raised, convex and with a shallow longitudinal median depression, supraclypeal area triangular and convex in profile. Clypeus finely and scattered punctate (i = 3 – 4 d), in median depression slightly coarser and denser (i = 1 d); surface between punctures smooth and shiny (Fig. 5 d). Malar area medially about ½ as long as width of mandible base, partly finely punctate. Antenna black, ventrally bright yellowish-brown. Mesosoma. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc impunctate, smooth and shiny. Scutellum anteriorly impunctate with more dense punctation apically, surface smooth and shiny (Fig. 5 b). Mesoscutum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with greyish to yellowish-white, erect hairs (Fig. 5 a, b). Wings. Very slightly yellowish; wing venation and stigma light yellowish-brown. Legs. Integument light to dark reddish-brown; tarsi partly yellowish-brown. Vestiture whitish to greyish, scopa white. Metasoma. Integument black to dark reddish-brown, depressed apical tergal margins yellowish translucent (Fig. 5 e). Terga densely covered with short, appressed white to yellowish-white hairs; on T 1 anteriorly with a few long, erect white hairs; apical tergal hair band moderately wide and often indistinguishable from the pilosity of the discs (Fig. 5 a, e). Terga densely and very finely punctate (i <d), between punctures smooth and shiny (Fig. 5 e). Male. Unknown.
description
Floral hosts. unknown. Seasonal activity (first – last observations). V – VI.
description
General distribution. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, * Tajikistan. Colletes kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin sp. nov. (Figs 5 a – e)
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Colletes kaline is closely related to C. pallipes. With the latter and the females of C. rubripes and C. skorikowi, both from the C. squamosus - group, C. kaline shares the conspicuously raised clypeus (Fig. 5 c). However, C. kaline differs from these three species by its metasomal terga that are completely and densely covered with short appressed hairs hiding the sculpture of the terga (Fig. 5 a, e) while in the other species the discs of T 2 – T 6 are at least medially narrowly hairless.
etymology
Etymology. The name highlights the fact that in this species only the female is known. In Masematte “ Kaline ” means “ girl ” and is here used as a noun in apposition. Masematte is a regional sociolect or social dialect that was exclusively used in the poorer urban quarters of the city of Münster (NW Germany). It belongs to Rotwelsch which is a secret language of thieves, beggars and hustlers (Thieves´cant or Rogues´cant) primarily spoken in parts of Germany and Switzerland. General distribution. Only known from the type locality in Turkmenistan.
materials_examined
Material examined. Kazakhstan. Aktyubins Prov.: 1 ♂, Chelkar [57 º 10 ' E 50 º 17 ' N], 2. VI. 1928, VBP (ZISP); Kyzylorda Prov.: 70 ♂, Aralskoe More (= Aralsk) [68 º 45 ' E 40 º 60 ' N], 31. V. 1928, VBP (ZISP / IZKU); Akmolinsk Prov.: 16 ♂, Kokshetay Mt., Tersakkan River [70 º 12 ' E 53 º 05 ' N], 16. VI. 1957, VRR (ZISP); Yuzhno- Kazakhstanskaya Prov.: 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Chardara [67 º 58 ' E 41 º 15 ' N], Morawitz’s coll. (ZISP); 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Kyzylkum [68 º 00 ' E 42 º 00 ' N], Morawitz’s coll. (ZISP); 2 ♀, 20 ♂, Lake Charbarinskoe, Chordara, Wof Tashkent [67 º 58 ' E 41 º 15 ' N], 180 m, OTA, RMU (KUFJ); 3 ♂, Komsomolskoe, Kyzylkum desert (N of Chardara) [67 º 58 ' E 41 º 15 ' N], OTA (KUFJ); Zhambyl Prov.: 1 ♀, 1 ♂, NW of Tatti, Muyunkum desert (N of Talas) [73 º 18 ' E 43 º 12 ' N], OTA, RMU (KUFJ / RCMK); 7 ♂, S of Balkhash Lake, 6 km E Mulaly [78 º 24 ' E 45 º 26 ' N], V. Gurko (OÖLM). Uzbekistan. Navoiy Prov.: 3 ♂, Bukantau Mts., Tshingildy [63 º 28 ' E 42 º 36 ' N], V. Gurko (OÖLM); Syrdar’ya Prov.: 1 ♂, Karmakchi [64 º 05 ' E 45 º 25 ' N], 23. V. 1928, VBP (ZISP). Turkmenistan. Lebap Prov.: 2 ♀, Repetek [63 º 10 ' E 38 º 34 ' N], 13. V. 1889, Morawitz’s coll. (ZISP); 1 ♂, 24. VI. 1937, Yu. Kostylev (ZMMU); 36 ♂, 5. V. 1978, YUP (ZISP); 1 ♂, Uch-Adzhi [62 º 48 ' E 38 º 05 ' N], 1 – 3. V. 1929, ASH (ZISP). Tajikistan. Region of Republican Subordination: 3 ♂, Petra Velikogo Ridge, Zakh-Bursi [71 º 40 ' E 41 º 10 ' N], 5. VII. 1913, Golbeck (IZKU / ZISP); Khatlon Prov.: 12 ♂, Kurgan-tyube [69 º 35 ' E 37 º 46 ' N], 24 – 25. VII. 1913, Golbeck’s coll. (ZISP). Published records. Noskiewicz (1936: 260); Kuhlmann (2005: 1371); Kuhlmann (2009 a: 17): Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
materials_examined
Type material (4 specimens). Holotype, female, Turkmenistan: Lebap Prov., Repetek (63 ° 10 ' E 38 ° 34 ' N), 24. VI. 1937, Yu. Kostylev (ZMMU). Paratype: 1 ♀, same dates as holotype (RCMK); 2 ♀, Turkmenistan: Repetek (63 ° 10 ' E 38 ° 34 ' N), 13. – 18. V. 1977, V. Kaplin (IBSS, RCMK).