Andrena ( Plastandrena ) agilissima (Scopoli, 1770)

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 : 48

18. Andrena ( Plastandrena) agilissima (Scopoli, 1770)

Listed by

Makkar et al. (2016): Punjab; Meena & Dey (2018b, 2019): North India; Chandra et al. (2019): Bihar, Delhi, and Punjab.

Remarks

Makkar et al. (2016) reported A. agilissima as new for India based on specimens from Muktsar in western Punjab. They also provided a barcode for this species (Genbank: KT960836). However, this specimen is A. fuscosa , both based on the morphology presented in photographs, and also based on the barcode which clusters with specimens from Spain and Israel ( Wood 2023b). Andrena agilissima (eastern limit in Hungary and Poland) is therefore excluded from the Indian fauna, with these Indian records referring instead to A. fuscosa .