Megachile (Callomegachile) disjuncta Fabricius, 1781

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 : 24

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

Figures

Figure 1. Megachile species from India. (a) M. laticeps ♀ (dorsal view); (b) M. disjuncta ♂ (dorsal view); (c) M. fraterna ♀ (dorsal view); (d) M. coelioxysides ♀ (dorsal view); (e.i) M. hera ♀ (dorsal view); (e.ii) M. hera ♀ (lateral view).