Xylocopa fenestrata ( Fabricius, 1798 )

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 : 221-222

5. Xylocopa fenestrata ( Fabricius, 1798) (Figure 5)

Synonymy

Apis fenestrata Fabricius, 1798

Xylocopa gardineri Cameron, 1902

Material examined: INDIA: Gujarat: Dang: Purna Wildlife Sanctuary:FRC-35, Singhana forest range, 1 ex., 21.ii.2020, 20°58.094’’ N, 073°44.610’’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10439/A; FRC-7, Bardipada forest range, 2 exs., 18.ii.2020, 20°57’88.9’’ N, 073°39’60.8’’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10443/A; RFC-163, Ahwa west Range , Locality-1, 4 exs., 10.xii.2020, 20 ⁰52.103’ N ,

073 ⁰40.362’ E. Coll. H. S. Banyal & party, NZC Regd. No. 10512/A; RFC-1 Sighana Range, 2 exs., 6.xii.2020,

20 ⁰59.019’ N, 073 ⁰43.087’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party,

NZC Regd. No. 10665/A; Watch tower, Bardipada, 1 ex.,

9.xii.2020, 20 ⁰52.103’ N, 073 ⁰40.362’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10750/A; Compartmt-77, Bheskatri Range, 2 exs., 8.xii.2020, 20 ⁰56.801’ N, 073 ⁰34.018’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10752/A; RFC 7 Sigana Range, 1 ex., 7.xii.2020, 20 ⁰56.817’ N, 073 ⁰35.957’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10753/A; RFC-164, 1 ex., 10.xii.2020, 20°52.823’ N, 073°40.461’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10761/A.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Haryana,

Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Iran, Madagascar, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka ( Putatunda & Kapil, 1988; Ascher & Gupta, 2019).

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