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An Annotated     Catalogue of the

Bee Species of the

Indian Region

    

      Genus Hylaeus Fabricius

         [Family Colletidae, Subfamily Hylaeinae]

• Hylaeus Fabricius, 1793: p.302; Type species: Prosopis annulata Fabricius, 1804 = Apis annulata Linnaeus, 1758, by designation of Latreille, 1810: p.438.

• Prosopis Jurine, 1801: p.164. Suppressed by Commission Opinion 135 (1939).

• Prosopis Fabricius, 1804: p.293; Type species: Mellinus bipunctatus Fabricius, 1798 = Sphex signata Panzer, 1798, designation by Morice & Durrant, 1915: p.416.

• Prosapis Ashmead, 1894: p.43, unjustified emendation of Prosopis Fabricius, 1804.

S. No.	Name of Species with Author & Year	Distribution OR Collection Site
1.	mixta [Smith, 1852 (Prosopis) = leucotarsis Cameron, 1897]	India
2.	strenua [Cameron, 1897 (Prosopis)]	Barrackpore, Bengal
3.	mustela [Vachal, 1894 (Prosopis)]	Burma
4.	feai [Vachal, 1894 (Prosopis) = striatifron Cameron, 1897]	Sikkim, Burma
5.	fervida [Smith, 1878 (Prosopis)]	Sindh (Pakistan), Kashmir
6.	scutula [Vachal, 1894 (Prosopis)]	Upper Burma, Tenasserim
7.	absoluta [Cameron, 1897 (Prosopis)]	Barrackpore, Bengal & Chapra (Cockerell, 1920)
8.	bellicosa [Cameron, 1897 (Prosopis)]	Barrackpore
9.	monilicornis [Motsch., 1863 (Prosopis)]	Ceylon
10.	andrei [Vachal, 1899 (Prosopis)]	Burma
11.	kashmirensis [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Kashmir
12.	gujaratica [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Deesa
13.	repentens [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Deesa
14.	montana [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Mount Abu
15.	vetusta [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Kashmir
16.	secreta [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Kashmir
17.	advocata [Nurse, 1903 (Prosopis)]	Kashmir
18.	basimacula [Cameron, 1904 (Prosopis)]	Darjeeling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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