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An Annotated

Catalogue of the

Bee Species of the

Indian Region

 

Family Andrenidae

The family occurs on all continents except Australia. They are also almost absent from the tropical Asian region. Four subfamilies are recognized Alocandreninae, Panurginae, Andreninae & Oxaeinae. Based upon the phylogenetic characters (Alexander & Michener, 1995), Oxaeinae appeared as part of the Andrenidae. Rozen's (1993, 1994) studies of larvae showed the same thing: Euherbstia in the Andrenidae appeared as the sister group to the Oxaeinae. Thus both larval and adult characters indicate that the Oxaeinae are much modified (i.e. with many derived characters) Andrenidae (Michener, 2000).  Only four genera occur in our specified area. Andrena & Melittoides belong to Andreninae and, Camptopoeum & Plesiopanurgus belong to Panurginae.

Summary of included subfamilies and tribes and, their respective genera found in our specified region :

 

S. No.	Subfamilies	Tribes	Genera found in our specified region
A.	Alocandreninae
B.	Andreninae		Andrena Fabricius, Melittoides Friese
C.	Panurginae
		1. Protandrenini
		2. Panurgini	Camptopoeum Spinola
		3. Melitturgini	Meliturgula Friese,    Plesiopanurgus Cameron
		4. Protomeliturgini
		3. Perditini
		4. Calliopsini
D.	Oxaeinae

Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta

Department of Zoology

Jai Narain Vyas University

Jodhpur 342 005, India

Ph. +91-291-272 6666

E-mail: [email protected]

 

 

Visit "An Updating Bibliography of the Bees of the World" by the same author for the authors' linked references mentioned in this document.

 

Date of release 31 May, 2003                                                          Website Created and Maintained by Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta