Megachile (Eutricharaea) gathela Cameron, 1908

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 : 25

7. Megachile (Eutricharaea) gathela Cameron, 1908 ( Figure 2h )

1908. Megachile gathela Cameron, J. Bombay Nat.Hist.Soc., 18: 650 (H, ♀) .

Material examined: 01 ♀, India, Gujarat, Dwarka , near railway station, 13.xii.1973, net sweep, coll. S.K. Gupta; 01 ♀, India, Himachal Pradesh, Kaza , 32.2252°N, 78.0523°E , 14.xi.2011, Sweep net, coll. S. Ray.

Distribution: Gujarat ( Cameron, 1908), Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab ( Gupta, 1993), Uttarakhand ( Khan et al., 2016).

Floral associations: Lagerstroemia sp. ( Lythraceae ), Bauhinia latifolia , Crotalaria juncea , Medicago sativa , Derris pinnata , Tephrosia hamiltonii , Parkinsonia sp. , Acacia sp. ( Fabaceae ), Helianthus annuus , Tagetes sp. , Gaillardia sp. , Tridax procumbens ( Asteraceae ), Brassica campestris ( Brassicaceae ), Vitex negundo ( Lamiaceae ), Boerhavia diffusa ( Nyctaginaceae ), Jacaranda mimosifolia , Tecoma stans ( Bignoniaceae ), Grewia asiatica ( Malvaceae ), Adhatoda vasica ( Acanthaceae ) ( Gupta, 1993).

V. Subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese, 1898

Figures

Figure 2. Megachile species from India. (f) M. hera ♂ (dorsal view); (g.i) M. vera ♀ (dorsal view); (g.ii) M. vera ♀ (lateral view); (h) M. gathela ♀ (dorsal view); (i) M. lanata ♂ (dorsal view); (j) M. lanata ♀ (dorsal view).