Colletes jansmiti KUHLMANN , 2018

Kuhlmann, Michael, 2025, Description of the male of Colletes jansmiti KUHLMANN, 2018, a bee species endemic to Spain (Hymenoptera, Colletidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 56 (2), pp. 561-565 : 562

Colletes jansmiti KUHLMANN, 2018 ( Figs 1-2 , 7-10 )

Colletes jansmiti KUHLMANN, 2018 — KUHLMANN & SMIT (2018): 1250-1251, 1253-1254.

Holotype: ♀ ( Ronda la Vieja , Spain) (research collection of M. Kuhlmann, Zoological Museum of Kiel University, Kiel, Germany).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Spain: 1³,"Archidona(Mal)E. [ 37°05′ N, 4°23′ W], 31-5-1983, Leg. H. Teunissen" (Coll. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands).

The hitherto unknown male of C. jansmiti is here described for the first time.

D i a g n o s i s: Colletes jansmiti differs from the other species of the C. albomaculatus species-group by the following character combination (see also key to males below): Punctation on disc of T 1 fine and very dense (i <0.5d), apical margin sharply truncate and deeply depressed, depression slightly narrower than the width of the antenna ( Fig. 1 ), size and shape of S7 ( Fig. 2 ).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Male: Body length: 12.0 mm (Habitus Fig. 7 ). Head slightly wider than long ( Fig. 8 ). Integument black, mandible apically dark reddish-brown. Face densely covered with moderately long yellowish-grey, erect hair ( Fig. 8 ). Clypeus convex, relatively finely, regularly and densely punctate (i = 0.5-1.0d); surface between punctures smooth and shiny, inconspicuous pair of apical clypeal depressions ( Fig. 8 ). Malar area medially narrow, about 1/4 as long as width of mandible base, finely striate and matt. Antenna black. Scutum coarsely and densely punctate (i <0.5d), on the disc slightly coarser and more dispersed, between punctures smooth and shiny. Scutellum almost flat, densely and coarsely punctate (i <0.5d). Mesosoma densely covered with short yellowish-grey hair ( Fig. 7 ). Wings fuscous, venation blackish-brown ( Fig. 7 ). Legs black, tarsi partly dark reddish-brown, vestiture whitish. Integument of metasoma black to partly very dark reddish-black, apical tergal depressions translucent brown ( Fig. 9 ). Terga sparsely covered with short erect hair, on T 1- T 2 greyish, from T 3 successively darker brown; apical depressions with short appressed white hair forming narrow apical hair bands ( Figs 1 , 9 ). Terga apically distinctly depressed, depression smooth and shiny. Terga very densely (i <0.5d) and relatively coarsely punctate, between punctures smooth and shiny ( Figs 1 , 9 ). S2-S4 with very narrow but distinct apical hair band. Gonostylus ( Fig. 10 ) and S7 ( Fig. 2 ) as illustrated.

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: So far, the species has only been found at two sites in southern Spain.

Figures

Figs 1-2: Colletes jansmiti KUHLMANN, male; (1) metasomal terga T1-T2, (2) metasomal sternum S7. Figs 3-4: C. punctatus MOCSARY, male; (3) metasomal terga T1-T2, (4) metasomal sternum S7. Figs 5-6: Colletes alfkeni NOSKIEWICZ, male; (5) metasomal terga T1-T2, (6) metasomal sternum S7.

Figs 7-10: Colletes jansmiti KUHLMANN, male; (7) habitus, (8) head, (9) metasoma, (10) gonostylus in lateral view.