2. Megachile (Callomegachile) disjuncta Fabricius, 1781 (Figure 1b)

1781. Apis disjuncta Fabricius, Ape. Insect I, p. 481.

Material examined: 01 ♂, India, West Bengal, Calcutta (= Kolkata), Botanical Garden, 09.viii.1966, coll. K.K. Roy ; 01 ♂, Hooghly, Chandannagar, 09.xi.1965, coll. K.K. Roy ; 01 ♀, Odisha, Ganjam, Badakuda Island, Chilika lake,

22.vii.1916, coll. F.H. Gravely.

Distribution: India: Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh (Bingham, 1897), Chandigarh, Haryana (Kumari & Kumar, 2018), Gujarat (Gupta, 1993), Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala (GBIF, 2020a), Jammu & Kashmir (Shankar et al., 2017), West Bengal (new record), Odisha (new record).

Floral associations: Derris pinnata, Vitex negundo ( Lamiaceae), Duranta sp., ( Verbenaceae) Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria juncea ( Fabaceae), Jacaranda mimosifolia ( Bignoniaceae) (Gupta, 1993), Peltophorum pterocarpum ( Fabaceae) (Soh and Ascher, 2014), Vitex trifolia, Premna foetida ( Lamiaceae), Tamarindus indica, Crotalaria pallida ( Fabaceae), Memecylon caeruleum ( Melastomataceae), Syzygium zeylanicum ( Myrtaceae), Antigonon leptopus ( Polygonaceae), Asystasia gangetica ( Acanthaceae), Averrhoa carambola ( Oxalidaceae) (Ascher et al., 2016), Dipterocarpus obtusifolius ( Dipterocarpaceae) (Engel and Gonzalez, 2011), Parkinsonia aculeata ( Fabaceae) (Shankar et al., 2017).

III. Subgenus Creightonella Cockerell, 1908