Megachile (Aethomegachile) laticeps Smith, 1853

Sardar, Sayan, Warrit, Natapot, Rameshkumar, A. & Kazmi, S. I., 2021, New distributional records of Megachile Latreille, 1802 (Apoidea: Megachilidae) from Indian States, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1), pp. 23-29 : 23-24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/154515

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10949444

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megachile (Aethomegachile) laticeps Smith, 1853
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1. Megachile (Aethomegachile) laticeps Smith, 1853 View in CoL ( Figure 1a View Figure 1 )

1853. Megachile laticeps Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus. , 1: 183 (H, ♂).

Material examined: 01 ♀, India, West Bengal, Darjeeling, Rangpo , 27.1595°N 88.5088°E, 14.ix.1978 GoogleMaps , sweep net, coll. A.N. T. Joseph; 01 ♀, Andhra Pradesh, Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Hope Island , 16.9234°N, 82.2739°E GoogleMaps ,

13.xii.2018, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar; 01 ♀, Rajasthan, Kota , 28.iv.1993, sweep net, coll. Sharma.

Distribution: India: Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu ( GBIF, 2020d), West Bengal (new record), Andhra Pradesh (new record), Rajasthan (new record).

Floral associations: Crotalaria pallida , Peltophorum pterocarpum ( Fabaceae ), Memecylon caeruleum ( Melastomataceae ), Vitex trifolia ( Lamiaceae ) (Ascher, et al., 2016), Dendrolobium umbellatum ( Fabaceae ) ( Soh et al., 2018), Cajanus cajan , Crotalaria juncea , Lablab purpureus ( Fabaceae ), Ocimum basilicum ( Lamiaceae ) ( Amala et al., 2019).

II. Subgenus Callomegachile Michener, 1962

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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

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