Type

Goniocolletes rugosus — Western Australia: holotype ♀, Balladonia, 1935, A.E. Baesjou (SAM).

Additional material examined: 2♀ Western Australia: Beelerup.

Months collected: February.

Floral visitations: None recorded.

Female — Length ca 12 mm; head and mesosoma black with paler clypeus and supraclypeal area; metasoma orange. Head —Facial fovea poorly defined ventrally; vertex with small, dense, punctures; extends about 1 ocellar width behind upper eye margin; ocellocular area flat; scape reaching median ocellus, tapering basally; inner eye margin straight converging below; 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, flat; clypeus at same level as supraclypeal level, flat; epistomal suture distinct, straight; hair white, dense on paraocular area and frons; moderately dense, simple on clypeus, branched on supraclypeal area; scape black, supraclypeal area punctate covered with moderately long branched hair; mandible dark reddish; malar space polished, length about 0.2 x width; labial palps just reaching apex of extended glossa; maxillary palps reaching just beyond apex of extended glossa. Mesosoma —Hair off white to pale brown; propodeal triangle rough basally with strong transverse carina; claws large with inner ramus basal; fore tibial spur with a few teeth; inner hind tibial spur with about 8 long, fine teeth; basitibial plate obscured by dense, dark, branched hair, marginal carina obscured. Metasoma— Hair bands absent; hair fine, sparse, white; pygidial plate strongly raised medially, broad, blunt apically; prepygidial fimbria black; gradulus absent. Male — Unknown.