7. Megachile (Eutricharaea) gathela Cameron, 1908 (Figure 2h)

1908. Megachile gathela Cameron, J. Bombay Nat.Hist.Soc., 18: 650 (H, ♀) .

Material examined: 01 ♀, India, Gujarat, Dwarka, near railway station, 13.xii.1973, net sweep, coll. S.K. Gupta; 01 ♀, India, Himachal Pradesh, Kaza, 32.2252°N, 78.0523°E , 14.xi.2011, Sweep net, coll. S. Ray.

Distribution: Gujarat (Cameron, 1908), Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab (Gupta, 1993), Uttarakhand (Khan et al., 2016).

Floral associations: Lagerstroemia sp. ( Lythraceae), Bauhinia latifolia, Crotalaria juncea, Medicago sativa, Derris pinnata, Tephrosia hamiltonii, Parkinsonia sp., Acacia sp. ( Fabaceae), Helianthus annuus, Tagetes sp., Gaillardia sp., Tridax procumbens ( Asteraceae), Brassica campestris ( Brassicaceae), Vitex negundo ( Lamiaceae), Boerhavia diffusa ( Nyctaginaceae), Jacaranda mimosifolia, Tecoma stans ( Bignoniaceae), Grewia asiatica ( Malvaceae), Adhatoda vasica ( Acanthaceae) (Gupta, 1993).

V. Subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese, 1898