Goniocolletes comatus sp.n. Types Goniocolletes comatus — South Australia: holotype ♂, Lake Gilles NP., 3.ii.1975, C.A. & T.F. Houston off Eucalyptus blossom (SAM). Additional material examined: 9♀, 39♂ South Australia: Lake Gilles NP.; 7 k W Sherlock; 31 k N Pinaroo; Sherlock; 28 k NE Wirrulla; Orroroo; 20miles (32km) NE Eucla. Western Australia: 1 miles (17.6 k) S Salmon Gums; Darling Range; Gnowangerup; Weebubbie Cave area, WNW. Months collected: January, February, March, April, December. Floral visitations: Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus brachycalyx, Eucalyptus socialis, Melaleuca spp.. Female — Length ca 11 mm. Head— Integument black with dark orange to black clypeus; vertex with small, dense, punctures; extends about 1 ocellar width behind upper eye margin; ocellocular area flat; inner eye margin straight converging below; scape reaching median ocellus, tapering basally; hair white, densest on the lower paraocular area; scape almost naked, black; flagellum yellow beneath, black above; F1–10 length equal to, or less than width (female); antennal sockets not depressed or only shallowly so; supraclypeal area strongly raised above frons level, polished, flat; clypeus at same level as supraclypeal level, flat; epistomal suture distinct, straight; labrum basally strongly produced, apically flat; mandibles black, mottled orange medially; malar space smooth length about 0.16 width; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa; maxillary palps reaching just beyond apex of extended glossa. Mesosoma —Integument black; hair white; scutum glabrous posteriomedially; propodeal triangle with several fine transverse carina, basal area narrower than metanotum; midtibial spur long, slender; hind basitibial plate with dense, fine hair apparently not branched, not obscuring marginal carina; inner hind tibial spur with 6 long, slender teeth; hind basitarsus with posterior fringe of long branched hair, as well as a basal patch. Metasoma— Integument orange, darker apical margins; caudal fimbria black; hair dorsally short, sparse; postgradular area with weaker sculpture than pregradular area; pygidial plate broadly rounded apically, flat, smooth. Male —As for female except as follows: Length ca 10 mm. Head —Integument black; hair yellow to orange, mostly appressed; F3–11 length greater than width; malar space almost obsolete; mandibles slender, strongly emarginate at base of preapical tooth; labrum shallowly convex with no distinct apical tooth; labrum shallowly convex with no distinct apical area; beard moderate length. Mesosoma — Hair dense, long, orange; legs black with coxae and trochanters orange; hind coxa with small, apical tooth; hind tibial spurs subequal. Metasoma— Integument black; hair long, orange; pygidium clearly defined laterally; S8 strongly projecting, thick laterally at apex; S3–4 very short, dense fringe. For details of S7–8 and genitalia see figs 205–207.

Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387