Apis florea Fabricius, 1787

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

2. Apis florea Fabricius, 1787 (Figure 2)

Synonymy

Apis semirufa Hoffmannsegg, 1818

Apis lobata Smith, 1854

Apis floralis Horne and Smith, 1870

Apis testacea Bingham, 1898

Apis nursei Cockerell, 1911

Micrapis florea (Fabricius) by Ashmead, 1904

Material examined: INDIA: Gujarat: Dang: Purna Wildlife Sanctuary: Mahal campsite 1 ex., 20.ii.2020, 20°54.481’ N, 073°38.750’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10436/A; RFC-163, Ahwa West Range , Locality-1, 1 ex., 10.xii.2020, 20 ⁰ 52.103’ N, 073 ⁰40.362’ E, Coll. H.S. Banyal & party, NZC Regd. No. 10511/A; RFC-1 Sighana Range, 1 ex., 6.xii.2020, 20 ⁰59.019’ N, 073 ⁰43.087’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10666/A; RFC-67, Bheskatri Range, 1 ex., 7.xii.2020, 20°56.817’ N, 073°35.957’ E, Coll. S. Kumar & party, NZC Regd. No. 10894/A .

Distribution: India: Gujarat, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Pakistan (Saini et al, 2020).

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