Andrena (Melanapis) fuscosa Erichson, 1835

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 : 27-28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.948.2637

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13629372

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Andrena (Melanapis) fuscosa Erichson, 1835
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12. Andrena (Melanapis) fuscosa Erichson, 1835 View in CoL

Andrena fuscosa Erichson, 1835: 103 View in CoL , ♂ [ Spain, ZMHB, examined].

Melanapis violaceipennis Cameron, 1902: 422 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ [ India: Punjab, NHMUK, examined].

Melanapis rufifrons Nurse, 1904: 567 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ [ Pakistan, NHMUK, examined].

Listed by

Cameron (1902); Batra (1967); Makkar et al. (2016, as A. agilissima (Scopoli, 1770)) ; Chandra et al. (2019); Meena & Dey (2019); Ascher & Pickering (2023).

Remarks

Several authors, beginning with Makkar et al. (2016), reported A. agilissima for India when in fact they were referring to A. fuscosa (see below).

Material examined

INDIA • 1 ♀; Ferozepore [Firozpur]; 1–31 Mar. 1898; C.G. Nurse leg.; NHMUK (syntype of Melanapis violaceipennis ) .

PAKISTAN • 1 ♀; Quetta; 1–31 Mar. 1903; C.G. Nurse leg.; NHMUK (syntype of Melanapis rufifrons ) .

Distribution

West and Central Palaearctic to Pakistan and India (Punjab, Delhi, Bihar) ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002; Ascher & Pickering 2023; Wood 2023b).

NHMUK

NHMUK

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Andrenidae

Genus

Andrena

Loc

Andrena (Melanapis) fuscosa Erichson, 1835

Gautam, R. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Wood, Thomas J. 2024
2024
Loc

Melanapis rufifrons

Nurse C. G. 1904: 567
1904
Loc

Melanapis violaceipennis

Cameron P. 1902: 422
1902
Loc

Andrena fuscosa

Erichson W. F. 1835: 103
1835
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