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Genus Colletes Latreille
[Family Colletidae, Subfamily Colletinae]
Colletes Latreille, 1802: p.423; type species Apis succincta Linnaeus, 1758, monobasic.
Evodia Panzer, 1806: p.207; Type specis Apis calendarum Panzer, 1802 =Apis calendarum Linnaeus, 1758, monobasic.
Monia Westwood, 1875: p.221 (not Gray, 1850); Type species: Monia grisea Westwood, 1875, monobasic.
Monidia Cockerell, 1905: Ent. News 16: p.9; replacement for Monia Westwood, 1875; Type species: Monia grisea Westwood, 1875, autobasic.
Rhynchocolletes Moure, 1943: RE 14: p.447; Type species Rhynchocolletes albicinctus Moure, 1943, by original designation.
Subgeneric proposals made namely, Rhinocolletes Cockerell, 1910; Ptilopoda Friese, 1921; Denticolletes Noskiewicz, 1936; Puncticolletes Noskiewicz, 1936; Pachycolletes Bischoff, 1954; Albocolletes Warncke, 1978; Elecolletes Warncke, 1978; Nanocolletes Warncke, 1978 and Simcolletes Warncke, 1978 were merged into genus Colletes and no subgeneric recognition left in the classification for the genus [Michener, 2000].
S. No.
Name of Species with Author & Year
Distribution OR
Collection Site
Flower Record 1. ankarae Warncke, 1978: BEPW 48: p. 343-344 Ankara, Turkey 2. caskanus chagrinus Warncke, 1978: BEPW 48: p. 366-367 Ċivelan, Hakkari, Turkei 3.
comberi Cockerell, 1911 Northwestern India, Bharatpur, Alwar, Agra, Kota, Dhaulpur Farsetia jacquemontii (Batra, 1967); Brassica compestris var. sarson (Gupta & Yadav, 2001) 4. cunicularius tauricus Warncke, 1978: BEPW 48: p. 365-366 Akseki, Taurus Mountains, Turkey 5.
dudgeonii Bingham, 1897 [= dentata Cameron, 1898] Sikkim, Poona 6. elegans Noskiewicz, 1936 eastern region to Mediterranean 7. floralis karadagi Warncke, 1978: BEPW 48: 355-356 Madenċehir, Turkey 8. glaber Warncke, 1978: BEPW 48: p. 350-352 Ċereflikoçisar, Turkey 9. kaszabi Kuhlmann, 2002 [Kuhlmann & Dorn, 2002: p.92] Kazakistan 10.
lacunatus Dours, 1872 [ = bracatus Perez, 1895; = grandis Friese, 1898; = nursei Cameron, 1907; = deesensis Cockerell, 1918] Ferozepur, Bharatpur, Alwar, Agra, Kota, Dhaulpur Brassica napus var. dichotoma (Toria), Brassica compestris var. sarson, Eruca sativa, Melilotus indica, Malus sylvestris (apple), merigold cult (Batra, 1967); B. compestris var. sarson (Gupta & Yadav, 2001) 11. marginatus helthiticus Warncke, 1978: BEPW 48: p. 358-359 Konya, Turkey 12. mongolicus Friese, 1913 (not Perez, 1903) = friesei Cockerell, 1918 Mongolia upto Baluchistan in south 13. nanus Friese, 1898 east and west palearctic region 14. persicus Warncke, 1979: BMCSNV 30: p.175-176 Molla-Sani, Iran 15. reticulatus [Cameron, 1897 (Andrena) = sacrissima Cameron, 1897 (Andrena) = phaedra Cameron, 1897] Mussoorie, Dehradun, Garhwal Region in northern India 16.
sanctus Cockerell, 1910 Himalaya 17. sodalis [Cameron, 1897 (Andrena) = honoratus Cockerell, 1922] Mussoorie, Garhwal region in Uttaranchal 18. tadschikus Kuhlmann, 2002 [Kuhlmann & Dorn, 2002: p.106-108] Tadzikistan
Political territories have been mentioned as such (as mentioned by original authors): Burma [Present day Myanmar], Ceylon [Present day Sri Lanka], Bengal [Present day East Bengal in India and the present day Bangla Desh], Punjab [western part of the state is the present day Punjab in Pakistan].
Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta
Department of Zoology
Jai Narain Vyas University
Jodhpur 342 005, India
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