An unusual new Leioproctus species (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

Abstract

aBstract. Leioproctus glendae Batley, n. sp., is described on the basis of two males and one female from western Queensland. The female has an unusually narrow fore basitarsus and mandibular structure not seen in other members of the genus, while the male terminalia do not closely resemble those of any other species group. The new species provides further demonstration of the variety of forms contained in the genus Leioproctus, and is described in order to assist future revision of this group.

A new bee genus from the pampas of eastern Argentina, with appended notes on the classification of “paracolletines” (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)

“…Type species: Leioproctus glendae Batley in Batley & Popic, 2016. Diagnosis: This genus resembles Colletellus Michener but differs most notably in the peculiarly modified mandible, which is broadened in the basal two thirds and then abruptly and greatly tapered to a long, simple, apical tooth; the elongate and flattened female probasitarsus with long, erect, thick, simple setae; the protibial calcar thickened and lacking a malus; and the bifid apex to the male sternum VIII.…”