5. Megachile (Eutricharaea) hera Bingham, 1897 (Figure 1e, 2f)

1897. Megachile hera Bingham, Fauna of British India, 1: 489.

Material examined: 01 ♀, India, West Bengal, Sagar Island, Chemaguri, 21.6625°N, 88.1425°E, 27.vii.2019, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar ; 01 ♀, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, WatchTower, Anti-poachingcamp,26°37.067ʹN, 89°33.633ʹE, 27.iii.2018, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar ; 01 ♀, India, Puducherry, Yedulanga, 16.7131°N, 82.2104°E , 03.xi.2019, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar; 01 ♂, India, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Damanganga circuit house campus, 20.2640°N, 72.9887°E , 20.i.2018, YPT, coll. A. Rameshkumar.

Distribution: India, Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat (Gupta, 1993), Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir (Shankar et al., 2017), Uttar Pradesh, Kerala (GBIF, 2020b), Uttarakhand (Khan et al., 2016), Karnataka (Veereshkumar, 2015), West Bengal, Puducherry (new record), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (New record).

Floral associations: Medicago sativa ( Fabaceae), Tagetes sp., Coreopsis sp., ( Asteraceae), Vitex negundo ( Lamiaceae) (Gupta, 1993), Parkinsonia aculeata ( Fabaceae) (Shankar et al., 2017), Salvia glutonisa ( Lamiaceae), Campanula latifolia ( Campanulaceae), Millettia pinnata, Tephrosia hamiltonii ( Fabaceae) (Kumari et al., 2019), Coccinia grandis ( Cucurbitaceae) (new record).