Megachile (Eutricharaea) hera Bingham, 1897

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 : 24-25

5. Megachile (Eutricharaea) hera Bingham, 1897 ( Figure 1e , 2f )

1897. Megachile hera Bingham, Fauna of British India, 1: 489.

Material examined: 01 ♀, India, West Bengal, Sagar Island, Chemaguri , 21.6625°N, 88.1425°E, 27.vii.2019, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar ; 01 ♀, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, WatchTower, Anti-poachingcamp ,26°37.067ʹN, 89°33.633ʹE, 27.iii.2018, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar ; 01 ♀, India, Puducherry, Yedulanga , 16.7131°N, 82.2104°E , 03.xi.2019, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar; 01 ♂, India, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Damanganga circuit house campus, 20.2640°N, 72.9887°E , 20.i.2018, YPT, coll. A. Rameshkumar.

Distribution: India, Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat ( Gupta, 1993), Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir ( Shankar et al., 2017), Uttar Pradesh, Kerala ( GBIF, 2020b), Uttarakhand ( Khan et al., 2016), Karnataka ( Veereshkumar, 2015) , West Bengal, Puducherry (new record), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (New record).

Floral associations: Medicago sativa ( Fabaceae ), Tagetes sp. , Coreopsis sp. , ( Asteraceae ), Vitex negundo ( Lamiaceae ) ( Gupta, 1993), Parkinsonia aculeata ( Fabaceae ) ( Shankar et al., 2017), Salvia glutonisa ( Lamiaceae ), Campanula latifolia ( Campanulaceae ), Millettia pinnata , Tephrosia hamiltonii ( Fabaceae ) ( Kumari et al., 2019), Coccinia grandis ( Cucurbitaceae ) (new record).

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).

Figure 2. Megachile species from India. (f) M. hera ♂ (dorsal view); (g.i) M. vera ♀ (dorsal view); (g.ii) M. vera ♀ (lateral view); (h) M. gathela ♀ (dorsal view); (i) M. lanata ♂ (dorsal view); (j) M. lanata ♀ (dorsal view).