Xylocopa violacea ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Raina, Rifat H., Sharma, Indu & Choudhary, Preeti, 2023, New distributional records of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Dang, Gujarat, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (3), pp. 219-227 : 222

6. Xylocopa violacea ( Linnaeus, 1758) (Figure 6)

Synonymy

Xylocopa femorata Fabricius, 1804

Material examined: INDIA: Gujarat: Dang: Purna Wildlife Sanctuary: FRC-80, Beskatri forest range, 1 ex., 19.ii.2020, 20°57.927’’ N, 073°32.545’’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10437/A; RFC-4, Dhudla round, Bardipada Range , 1 ex., 7.xii.2020, 20 ⁰58.579’ N, 073 ⁰41.288’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10668/A; RFC-164, 1 ex., 10.xii.2020, 20°52.823’ N, 073°40.461’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10762/A .

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu. Elsewhere: Antigua, Barbuda, Albania, Austria, Algeria, Belgium, Azerbaijan, Belize, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Jordan, Macedonia, Macedonia, Poland, Morocco, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom ( Ascher & Gupta, 2019).

New Distribution: Recorded for the first time from Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Dang, Gujarat.