Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) ater

Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) ater (Saunders, 1903) Prosopis atra Saunders, 1903: 212–213, ♀ ♂. Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife. Syntypes NHM London. Prosopis (Paraprosopis) pictipes atra Saunders, 1903 – Warncke 1972: 749. Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) ater (Saunders, 1903) – Dathe 1993: 748. Diagnosis. Body length 4.4–6.1 mm in males, 5.5–5.8 mm in females. The species is unique in the archipelago in having a sharp edge between vertex and occiput in males and females (Fig. 39). Pronotum often bulged. T 1 laterally with narrow white ciliary fringes. Face in females mostly black, sometimes with yellow side spots. Mask of males yellow; side spots, if lengthened upwards, tapering to orbits (Fig. 32). At least tibia 1 of male with white stripe. Mesosoma with moderate punctation, slightly shiny. Terminalia are clearly distinguished by the long distal part of apical lobe of S 7 (Fig. 75). Distribution. Canary Islands: Tenerife. Remark. The illustration by Méhelÿ (1935: 159, tab. XXXII) for a male from El Hierro is not clearly assignable. The data for Tenerife in Dathe (1993: 748) are confirmed here; the further reports for El Hierro and La Gomera refer to H. hierro and H. gomerensis respectively.