Megachile, Latreille, 1802

Saini, Jagdish, Chandra, Kailash, Kumar, Hirdesh, Ghosh, Dibya Jyoti, Kazmi, S. I., Payra, Arajush & Deepak, C. K., 2018, Diversity of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in and around Namdapha National Park, with an Updated Checklist from Arunachal Pradesh, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 413-425 : 419-420

Key to the species of Megachile

1. Abdomen with fulvous or ferruginous-red pubescence above ................................................................................. 2

– Abdomen with white pubescence above or on lateral side .................................................................................... 4

2. Only first terga with red ferruginous-red pubescence, wings dark fuscous with rich purple effulgence, base hyaline................................ M. umbripennis Smith, 1853

– 1-6 tergites with fulvous or ferruginous-red pubescence 3

3. Body small (length 8-9 mm), scutum, scutellum joint with thin white hairs ............... M. stulta Bingham, 1897

– Body large, scutum (length 12-14 mm), scutellum joint without white hairs.... M. binghami Meade-Waldo, 1912

4. Head and thorax with fulvous pubescence, thorax puncture run into longitudinal striae .............................. .................................................. M. faceta Bingham, 1897

– Head and thorax without fulvous pubescence, thorax minutely punctured ................... M. hera Bingham, 1897