Megachile cephalotes Smith, 1853

Raina, Rifat H., Sharma, Indu & Choudhary, Preeti, 2023, New distributional records of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Dang, Gujarat, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (3), pp. 219-227 : 222

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v123/i3/2023/170364
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scientific name	Megachile cephalotes Smith, 1853
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8. Megachile cephalotes Smith, 1853 View in CoL (Figure 8)

Synonymy

Chalicodoma (Callomegachile) cephalotes ( Smith, 1853)

Material examined: INDIA: Gujarat: Dang: Purna Wildlife Sanctuary: RFC-69, Bheskatri Range , 1 ex., 7.xii.2020, 20°56.352’ N, 073°33.473’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10895/A GoogleMaps .

Distribution: India: Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Haryana, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Pakistan ( Batra, 1967; Gupta, 1993; Saini et al, 2019).

New Distribution: Recorded for the first time from Purna Wildlife Sanctuary, Dang, Gujarat.