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An Annotated     Catalogue of the

Bee Species of the

Indian Region

    

      Genus Eucera Scopoli

     [Family Apidae, Subfamily Apinae, Tribe Eucerini]

• Eucera Scopoli, 1770: p.8; Type species: Apis longicornis Linnaeus, 1758, by designation of Latreille, 1810: p.439.

 

S. No.	Name of Species with Author & Year	Distribution OR Collection Site
1.	medusa Nurse, 1904 JBNHS XV: p.578	Quetta
2.	diana Nurse, 1904 : p.579	Kashmir
3.	phryne Nurse, 1904: p.579	Deesa
4.	pomona Nurse, 1904: p.580	Quetta
5.	cassandra Nurse, 1904: p.581	Quetta
6.	melanostoma Morawitz; in Nurse, 1904: p.579	Quetta
7.	spectabilis Morawitz in Nurse, 1904: p.582	Quetta
8.	turcestanica Dalla-Torre, 1896; in Nurse, 1904: p.582	Quetta
9.	popovi Sitdikov; as Eucera (Oligeucera) popovi in Sitdikov and Pesenko, 1988: p.83	Tadjikistan
10.	hispana Lepeletier, 1841; as Eucera (Hetereucera) hispana in Tkalců, 1978: p.167	Afghanistan
11.	caspica Morawitz, 1873; as Eucera (Pareucera) caspica in Tkalcu, 1978: p.164; under subgenus Hetereucera in Michener, 2000: p.703	Southern region of Caspian Sea in Iran, Afghanistan
12.	clypeata Erichson, 1835; as Eucera (Stilbeucera) clypeata in Tkalcu, 1978: p.162; under subgenus Hetereucera in Michener, 2000: p.703	Afghanistan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Eucerinae -List of Species - Cockerell, 1912: Proc. Nat. Mus.5: 261-273.

 

Many species placed under subgenus Hetereucera Tkalcu are distributed in southern-eastern part of Caspian Sea more particularly in Iran, Afghanistan and parts of earlier known USSR have been described by Sitdikov and Pesenko (1988) and Sitdikov (1988); should be further consulted. [Species described by Nurse (1904) in above list probably belong to subgenus Synhalonia Patton (1879: p.473), awaiting taxonomic revision].

 

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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

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.

 

Inaugural release 26 Sept., 2003                                                          Website Created and Maintained by Dr. Rajiv K. Gupta