Andrena (? Euandrena) mephistophelica Cameron, 1897, 1775

Gautam, R. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Wood, Thomas J., 2024, A critical revision of the Andrena Fabricius, 1775 of India, with the description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from Uttarakhand, European Journal of Taxonomy 948, pp. 1-59 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.948.2637
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13629370
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scientific name	Andrena (? Euandrena) mephistophelica Cameron, 1897
status

Treatment

9. Andrena (? Euandrena) mephistophelica Cameron, 1897 View in CoL

Andrena mephistophelica Cameron, 1897: 117 View in CoL , sex not specified [ India: Uttarakhand, OUMNH, not examined].

Listed by

Bingham (1897); Cameron (1897); Bingham (1908); Meena & Dey (2019); Chandra et al. (2021); Ascher & Pickering (2023).

Remarks

As discussed above, A. mephistophelica is likely to be one of the larger-bodied red-marked Euandrena species present in the Himalayas. The exact location of the type material must be ascertained before further taxonomic action can be conducted.

Distribution

India (Uttarakhand) ( Cameron 1897).