Lipotriches exagens ( Walker, 1860 )

Athul, Cherodath Sankar, Vishnu, Azhakath Viswambharan, Prakash, Anju Sara, Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan & Shaji, Edappilly Mathew, 2025, A checklist of Nomiinae (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from Kerala, India: new distributional and floral association records, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3), pp. 601-623 : 611

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.3.601

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17029963

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scientific name

Lipotriches exagens ( Walker, 1860 )
status

 

Lipotriches exagens ( Walker, 1860) View in CoL ( Fig. 3C–D View Figure 3 )

Andrena exagens Walker, 1860:305 . Holotype ♂, Sri Lanka – BMNH.

Material examined. 1♂, India, Kerala, Thrissur, Chengaloor, near Kurumali River (10°23'36.0744"N, 76°18'16.4376"E), 11.vii.2024, Swept, leg.: CSA GoogleMaps ; 3♀♀, Vilangan Kunnu hillock (10°33'24.3108"N, 76°10'6.7296"E), 30.i.2023, Swept, leg.: CSA GoogleMaps ; 3♀♀, Kattoor Kole wetland (10°21'59.3892"N, 76°9'48.4236"E), 21.vi.2023, Swept, leg.: AVV GoogleMaps .

Brief diagnosis. ♂, Small species with length 6 mm or less, scutum smooth with spaced punctuations, metasoma orange-red and not pedunculated. Fourth sternite with two small elliptical depressions with pores. ♀, Body length, colour, pubescence, metasoma, scutum as in males.

Distribution in India. Goa, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu ( Pauly, 2014; Pannure & Belavadi, 2017; Ascher & Pickering, 2025), Kerala (New record).

General distribution. Oriental – India, Sri Lanka ( Ascher & Pickering, 2025).

Floral association. Poaceae (New record).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Lipotriches

Loc

Lipotriches exagens ( Walker, 1860 )

Athul, Cherodath Sankar, Vishnu, Azhakath Viswambharan, Prakash, Anju Sara, Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan & Shaji, Edappilly Mathew 2025
2025
Loc

Andrena exagens

Walker, F. 1860: 305
1860
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