Megachile (Eutricharaea) coelioxysides Bingham, 1898

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

4. Megachile (Eutricharaea) coelioxysides Bingham, 1898 ( Figure 1d )

1899. Megachile coelioxysides, Bingham, J. Bombay Nat.Hist. Soc., 12: 126.

Material examined: 01 ♀, India, Puducherry, Yedulanga , 16.7131°N, 82.2104°E, 03.xi.2019, sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar; 01 ♀, India, West Bengal, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Watch Tower, Anti-poaching camp , 26.6177°N, 89.5605°E, 27.iii.2018, sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar.

Distribution: India, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana ( Gupta, 1993), Gujarat ( Bingham, 1898), Maharashtra ( Waykar and Baviskar, 2016), Puducherry (new record), West Bengal (new record).

Floral associations: Tagetes sp. , Tridax procumbens ( Asteraceae ), Trifolium sp. ( Fabaceae ) ( Gupta, 1993).

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).