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An Annotated         Catalogue of the

Bee Species of the

Indian Region

    

      Genus Lithurgus Berthold

       [Family Megachilidae, Subfamily Megachilinae, Tribe Lithurgini]

• Lithurge Latreille, 1825: p.463; Type species Andrena cornuta Fabricius, 1787, monobasic. [The name Lithurge is French vernacular.]

• Lithurgus Berthold, 1827: p.467, emendation of Lithurge Latreille, 1825; Type species: Andrena cornutaI Fabricius, 1787, monobasic.

• Liturgus Ashmead, 1899: p.77, lapsus for Lithurgus Berthold, 1827.

 

S. No.	Name of *Species with Author & Year	Distribution OR Collection Site	Flower Record
1.	atratus Smith, 1853: p. 145 [Lieftinck, 1939: Nest & Taxonomy]	Karachi, Ludhiana, Dehradun, Allahabad, Pusa, Chhapra, Calcutta, West Bengal, Mysore, Bengalore, Burma, Tenasserim,  Ceylon, New Guinea	Datura sp., Solanum sp., Tephrosia hamictonii, Hibiscus sp., Gossypium sp.
2.	dentipes Smith, 1853: p. 146	Mainpuri (Northwestern Province), North Pakistan, Bangalore, Chhapra, Mysore, Sikkim, Kaziranga, Dibrugarh, Tenasserim, New Holland and upto Australia	Hibiscus sp., Solanum sp.
3.	taprobanae Cameron, 1902 JASB 71: p. 46	Northwestern Provinces, Jallandhar, Ludhiana, Solan, Hissar, Dehradun	Hibiscus esculantus, Gossypium arborium, Solanu sp.
4.	rufipes Smith, 1853: p. 145	Port Natal, Lonavala, Bombay
5.	tiwarii Gupta & Tewari, 1987  JBNHS 84: p. 405; Gupta, 1993: p.20	Pondicherry
6.	rubricatus Smith, 1853: p.146	Tiruchirapalli, Madurei, Thanjavur, Coimbatore (Gupta, 1993) New Holland (Smith, 1853)	Convolvulus sp., Cactus sp.
7.	albofacialis Gupta, 1993: p.21	Veeraval (Gujrat)	Ipomea palmatus
8.	nigroabdominalis Gupta, 1993: p.22	Veeraval (Gujrat)	Ipomea palmatus
9.	ovoabdominalis Gupta, 1993: p.24	Veeraval (Gujrat)	Ipomea palmatus
10.	apiformis Gupta, 1993: p.25	Veeraval (Gujrat)	Ipomea palmatus
11.	indicus Gupta, 1993: p.28	Veeraval (Gujrat)	Ipomea palmatus
12.	veeravaliensis Gupta, 1993: p.21	Veeraval (Gujrat)	Ipomea palmatus
13.	australior Cockerell, 1913	Tiruchirappalli, Coimbatore, Chhapra
14.	lissopoda [Cameron, 1908  JBNHS p. 651]	Bombay, Dharwar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* All species placed under subgenus Lithurgus s.str.

 

 

Go to subfamily Megachilinae

 

 

 

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