Taxonomic studies on subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese under genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera) from Sutlej basin plains (India)

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Published May 22, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.vi.2259

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Priyanka Kumari
High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Solan-173211 (HP), India
Neelima R. Kumar
Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014 (UT) India
Avtar K. Sidhu
High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Solan-173211 (HP), India

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Genus Megachile forms an integral part of the ecosystem as its members are important pollinators of both wild and cultivated flora. Surveying on a large scale helps in gathering a lot of information about their spatial and temporal data. This also helps in studying their biodiversity and taxonomy. Three species of solitary bees under subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese of the genus Megachile Latreille collected from Sutlej basin plains of India have been studied and described taxonomically. Megachile (Pseudomegachile) creusa (Bingham), M. (P.) ramakrishnae Cockerell and M. (P.) elfrona (Cameron) with 21 examples are described including their morphological characters, taxonomically important characters, zoogeographic records, floral associations along with genitalic and sternal plates. Since most of the areas included in the study have been surveyed first time for Megachile study, these are new records for the studied area.

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Pseudomegachile, Male genitalia, Sterna, Morphology

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Vol 12 No 2 (2020)
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Taxonomic studies on subgenus Pseudomegachile Friese under genus Megachile Latreille (Hymenoptera) from Sutlej basin plains (India). (2020). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 12(2), 146-155. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.vi.2259