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An Annotated

Catalogue of the

Bee Species of the

Indian Region

 


 

 

       

 

Subfamily Rophitinae Schenck

[Family Halictidae]

 

 

S. No.

Name of Genus with Author 

Included subgenera   and [no. of species]

Distribution

1.

Genus Ancylandrena Cockerell, 1930 PPE 7: p.5

 -                       [5]

Xeric parts of California, Nevada, Arizona (USA) and in Baja California, Notre and Sonora (Mexico)

2.

Genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775

Subgenera of Andrena

Both Hemisphere

3. Genus Dufourea Lepeletier, 1841 -                     [125]  Both Hemisphere
4.

Genus Euherbstia Friese, 1925

-                        [1]  [Euherbstia excellens Friese]

Central Chile

5. Genus Megandrena Cockerell

a. Erythrandrena Zavortink, 1972                  [1] [Megandrena mentzeliae Zavortink]

 

b. Megandrena Cockerell, 1927 PPE 4: p.42              [1]  [Megandrena enceliae (Cockerell, 1927)

a. southern Nevada, USA

 

 

b. southern California, Nevada and Arizona, USA

6.

Genus Melittoides Friese, 1921

-                       [1]  [Melittoides melittoides (Friese)]

Tunisia, Egypt [North Africa]

7. Genus Orphana Vachal, 1909: 35, 38

-                       [2]

central Chile from Coquimbo to Curico [both species were illustrated by Rozen, 1971]
8. Genus Rophites Spinola, 1808: p. 8, 72

a. Flavodufourea Ebmer, 1984: p. 373                  [1] [Rophites flavicornis (Friese, 1913)]

 

b. Rhophitoides Schenck, 1861: p. 69                         [4] 

c. Rophites Spinola, 1808: p. 8, 72  [13] 

a. Mongolia

 

 

b. Morocco and France to Turkey & Caucasus

c. Spain, Morocco to Asia minor, southern Russia and up to Mongolia

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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