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Genus Tetraloniella Ashmead
[Family Apidae, Subfamily Apinae, Tribe Eucerini]
Tetraloniella Ashmead, 1899: p. 61; Type species Macrocera graja Eversmann, 1852, by original designation.
Xenoglossodes Ashmead, 1899: p. 63; Type species Melissodes albata Cresson, 1872, by original designation.
Melissina Cockerell, 1911: p. 670; Type species Melissina viator Cockerell, 1911, monobasic.
S. No.
Name of Species with Author & Year
Distribution OR
Collection Site
1.
brevipennis [Cameron, 1898: p. 78 (Tetralonia); detailed characters of, in Nurse, 1903; labelled Wroughtonia brevipennis Cam. = Tetralonia ruficornis (F.), Dover (1925: p. 225, misident.] Allahabad (India) 2.
nigriceps [Morawitz, 1895: p. 12 (Tetralonia); = Melissina nigriceps (Mor.) in Popov, 1962: p. 294] under subgenus Glazunovia Baker, 1998, p. 846. (Surabad) Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Stalinabad (Dushanbe) up to Anatolia, Iran, Turkey 3.
viator [Cockerell, 1911: p. 670 (Melissina)] under subgenus Tetraloniella Ashmead s.str. Karachi, N. W. India
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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