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An Annotated     Catalogue of the

Bee Species of the

Indian Region

    

   Genus Melitta Kirby

      [Family Melittidae, Subfamily Melittinae]

• Melitta Kirby, 1802: p.117; Type species: Melitta tricincta Kirby, 1802, by designation of Richards, 1935: p.172.

• Cilissa Leach, 1815: p.155; Type species: Andrena haemorrhoidalis Fabricius, 1775, by designation of Westwood, 1840 Vol. 1 & 2: p.84.

• Kirbya Lepeletier, 1841: p.145 (not Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830); Type species: Melitta tricincta Kirby, 1802, by designation of Sandhouse, 1943: p.561.

• Pseudocilissa Radoszkowski, 1891: p.241; Type species: Cilissa robusta Radoszkowski, 1876 = Melitta dimidiata Morawitz, 1876, monobasic.

• Brachycephalapsis Viereck, 1909: p.47; Type species: Melitta californica Viereck, 1909, by original designation.

 

S. No.	Name of Species with Author & Year	Distribution OR Collection Site
1.	harrietae [Bingham, 1897 (Andrena); altissima Cockerell, 1910 Entomologist: p.240; = Melitta anthophoroides Maede-Waldo, 1916 AMNH XVII: p.463]	Sikkim, Himalaya

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

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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