Andrena ( Melanapis ) fuscosa Erichson, 1835

Gautam, R. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Wood, Thomas J., 2024, A critical revision of the Andrena Fabricius, 1775 of India, with the description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from Uttarakhand, European Journal of Taxonomy 948, pp. 1-59 : 27-28

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.948.2637

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13629372

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Andrena ( Melanapis ) fuscosa Erichson, 1835
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12. Andrena ( Melanapis) fuscosa Erichson, 1835 View in CoL

Andrena fuscosa Erichson, 1835: 103 View in CoL , ♂ [ Spain, ZMHB, examined].

Melanapis violaceipennis Cameron, 1902: 422 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ [ India: Punjab, NHMUK, examined].

Melanapis rufifrons Nurse, 1904: 567 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ [ Pakistan, NHMUK, examined].

Listed by

Cameron (1902); Batra (1967); Makkar et al. (2016, as A. agilissima (Scopoli, 1770)) ; Chandra et al. (2019); Meena & Dey (2019); Ascher & Pickering (2023).

Remarks

Several authors, beginning with Makkar et al. (2016), reported A. agilissima for India when in fact they were referring to A. fuscosa (see below).

Material examined

INDIA • 1 ♀; Ferozepore [Firozpur]; 1–31 Mar. 1898; C.G. Nurse leg.; NHMUK ( syntype of Melanapis violaceipennis ) .

PAKISTAN • 1 ♀; Quetta; 1–31 Mar. 1903; C.G. Nurse leg.; NHMUK ( syntype of Melanapis rufifrons ) .

Distribution

West and Central Palaearctic to Pakistan and India (Punjab, Delhi, Bihar) ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002; Ascher & Pickering 2023; Wood 2023b).

NHMUK

NHMUK

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Andrenidae

Genus

Andrena

Loc

Andrena ( Melanapis ) fuscosa Erichson, 1835

Gautam, R. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Wood, Thomas J. 2024
2024
Loc

Melanapis rufifrons

Nurse C. G. 1904: 567
1904
Loc

Melanapis violaceipennis

Cameron P. 1902: 422
1902
Loc

Andrena fuscosa

Erichson W. F. 1835: 103
1835
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