Megachile (Aethomegachile) laticeps Smith 1853

• Main Authors: Sardar, Sayan, Warrit, Natapot, Rameshkumar, A., Kazmi, S. I.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Megachilidae; Megachile; Megachile laticeps; Hope island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10949444; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/527F87A4FFFEFFA7FCD215EAFD55FCDD

1. Megachile (Aethomegachile) laticeps Smith, 1853 (Figure 1a) 1853. Megachile laticeps Smith, Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus ., 1 : 183 (H, ♂). Material examined : 01 ♀, India, West Bengal, Darjeeling, Rangpo, 27.1595°N 88.5088°E, 14.ix.1978, sweep net, coll. A.N. T. Joseph; 01 ♀, Andhra Pradesh, Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Hope Island, 16.9234°N, 82.2739°E, 13.xii.2018, Sweep net, coll. A. Rameshkumar; 01 ♀, Rajasthan, Kota, 28.iv.1993, sweep net, coll. Sharma. Distribution : India: Lakshadweep, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu (GBIF, 2020d), West Bengal ( new record ) , Andhra Pradesh ( new record ) , Rajasthan ( new record ) . Floral associations : Crotalaria pallida, Peltophorum pterocarpum (Fabaceae), Memecylon caeruleum (Melastomataceae), Vitex trifolia (Lamiaceae) (Ascher, et al. , 2016), Dendrolobium umbellatum (Fabaceae) (Soh et al., 2018), Cajanus cajan, Crotalaria juncea, Lablab purpureus (Fabaceae), Ocimum basilicum (Lamiaceae) (Amala et al., 2019). II. Subgenus Callomegachile Michener, 1962 Published as part of Sardar, Sayan, Warrit, Natapot, Rameshkumar, A. & Kazmi, S. I., 2021, New distributional records of Megachile Latreille, 1802 (Apoidea: Megachilidae) from Indian States, pp. 23-29 in Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI:10.26515/rzsi/v121/i1/2021/154515, http://zenodo.org/record/10913819