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.